The Greek philosopher Socrates (c. 470–399 BC) proposed that intellectualism allows that “one will do what is right or best just as soon as one truly understands what is right or best”; that virtue is a purely intellectual matter, because virtue and knowledge are related qualities that a person accrues, possesses, and improves by dedication to reason. So defined, Socratic intellectualism was an important philosophic component of Stoicism in which the problematic consequences of such a perspective are “Socratic paradoxes”, such as there is no weakness of will — that no one knowingly does, or seeks to do, evil (moral wrong); that anyone who does, or seeks to do, moral wrong does so involuntarily; and that virtue is knowledge, that there are not many virtues, but that all virtues are one.