Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mind map
- Socrates: What is virtue?
- Meno: -the ability to rule -desire for
good things -ability to attain them
- Socrates: NO
- Meno: How can you ask questions about
things you know nothing about?
- Socrates: Knowledge is recollection
- Brings slave boy in
- Hypothesis: If virtue is knowledge, it
can be taught. -- no teachers
- Interview with Anytus
- Virtue cannot be taught agreement
- Agree that humans are divine
- Socrates conclusion: "Virtue comes to be
present by divine apportionment on those to
whom it comes."
- Muddiest point: "Don't you think you need to go
back to the original question? Or do you think
someone knows what a part of virtue is, without
knowing what virtue is?" Page 11
- Clearest point: "Well, I think, Socrates, that as the poet says, virtue is 'to
rejoice in things beautiful and be capable of them.' And that, I claim, is
virtue: desire for beautiful things and ability to attain them."