Questions of Ethics
- 1 April 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Harvard Theological Review
- Vol. 65 (4) , 453-481
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000001784
Abstract
“Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching or practice, then whether it comes to men by nature or in what other way?” These questions were once put to Socrates by Meno. How did Socrates, the patron saint of moral philosophy, reply? Leaving aside his ironic profession of ignorance, he proposed that the answer would only come once the nature of virtue was understood and defined.Keywords
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