Assertion: virtue | /r/HasProperty | taught
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text: Can Virtue Be Taught?
text: This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether virtue can be taught.'
text: This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether virtue can be taught.'
text: The dialog opens with Meno asking Socrates a seemingly straightforward question: Can virtue be taught?
text: Meno asks Socrates to return to their original question: Can virtue be taught?
text: Therefore virtue can be taught
text: Meno is content to conclude that virtue can be taught, but Socrates, to Meno's surprise, turns on his own argument and starts criticizing it.
text: If virtue could be taught there would be teachers of virtue.
text: The dialogue begins with Meno asking Socrates to tell him if virtue can be taught.
text: After the discussion with Anytus, Socrates returns to quizzing Meno for his own thoughts on whether the sophists are teachers of virtue and whether virtue can be taught.
text: Meno's theme is also dealt with in the dialogue Protagoras, where Plato ultimately has Socrates arrive at the opposite conclusion: virtue can be taught.
text: Medicine, because it remains a craft that requires apprenticeship, exemplifies how virtue can and should be taught.
text: 1) IF virtue is knowledge, then virtue can be taught
text: 2) IF virtue can be taught then there must be teachers of virtue
text: It begins as an abrupt, prepackaged debater’s challenge from Meno about whether virtue can be taught, and quickly becomes an open and inconclusive search for the essence of this elusive “virtue,” or human goodness in general.
text: When the conversation returns to Meno’s initial question of whether virtue can be taught, Socrates introduces another manner of investigation, a method of “hypotheses,” by which he argues that virtue must be some kind of knowledge, and so it must be something that’s taught.
text: In the last third of the dialogue, when Meno will not try again to define virtue, Socrates introduces and explores his own suspicion in terms of the following “hypothesis”: if virtue is taught then it is knowledge, and if it is knowledge then it is taught, but
text: The conclusion of this hypothetical investigation would be that virtue is taught because it is some kind of knowledge—
text: He asks again whether virtue is something that is taught, and once again he wants to be taught about this just by being told (86c-d; compare 70a, 75b,
text: : if virtue is something that is taught, then it is a kind of knowledge, and if it is a kind of knowledge, then it is something that is taught (87b-c).
text: Together with the hypothesis that knowledge and only knowledge is taught, Socrates would have proved that virtue is something that is taught.
text: He gathers well-known examples of allegedly virtuous men who did not teach their virtue even to their own children, which indicates that virtue is not something that is taught.
text: He reminds Meno that even professional teachers and good men themselves disagree about whether virtue can be taught.
text: Thus, Socrates states virtue can be taught.
text: If virtue is knowledge, then virtue can be taught.
text: But can virtue be taught?
text: Whether virtue can be taught or learned.]
text: The fundamental question of the dialogue is a highly practical one: whether virtue can be taught.
text: They return to the issue of whether virtue can be taught (86c).
text: The dialogue begins with Meno asking Socrates to tell him if virtue can be taught.
text: After the discussion with Anytus, Socrates returns to quizzing Meno for his own thoughts on whether the sophists are teachers of virtue and whether virtue can be taught.
text: Meno's theme is also dealt with in the dialogue Protagoras, where Plato ultimately has Socrates arrive at the opposite conclusion: virtue can be taught.