What is virtue according to Meno?
Meno’s third definition: Virtue is the desire to have and the ability to acquire fine and beautiful things. Socrates’ response: Everyone desires what they think is good (an idea one encounters in many of Plato’s dialogues).Click to see full answer. Just so, how does Meno define virtue?Meno again attempts to define virtue, this time as…
Meno’s third definition: Virtue is the desire to have and the ability to acquire fine and beautiful things. Socrates’ response: Everyone desires what they think is good (an idea one encounters in many of Plato’s dialogues).Click to see full answer. Just so, how does Meno define virtue?Meno again attempts to define virtue, this time as “desiring fine things and being able to acquire them” (77b). Socrates argues that no one desires what is not good, and that therefore the definition reduces to “the power of acquiring good things” (78c).Also Know, what is virtue according to Socrates? According to Socrates, virtue is knowledge, because: (1) all living things aim for their perceived good; and therefore (2) if anyone does not know what is good, he cannot do what is good — because he will always aim for a mistaken target; but (3) if someone knows what is good, he will do what is good, because he will Then, what kind of thing do Socrates and Meno suppose virtue is? Meno now beseeches Socrates to return to the original question, how virtue is acquired, and in particular, whether or not it is acquired by teaching or through life experience. Socrates proceeds on the hypothesis that virtue is knowledge, and it is quickly agreed that, if this is true, virtue is teachable.How does Socrates argue that virtue is wisdom in the Meno?Meno suggests that they return to the original question of whether virtue is taught, learned through practice, or inherent in some people’s nature. Socrates proposes the following hypothesis: if virtue is a kind of knowledge, then it can be taught (and if it is not, it cannot).
