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Plato - Meno by Plato

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Is virtue the same for different people?

Yes, if ‘virtue’ consists in realising the destiny laid out for one before birth by the Self.

That is ‘what’ is the same about it in all people.

The famous ‘ignorance’ argument is laid out by Meno: ‘Those who think bad things benefit them don’t know they’re bad things.’

Socrates: 'So if everyone desires good; virtue is being better at securing it.'

Socrates gets Meno to ‘admit’ virtue is only things done with justice (rather than wickedness).
Therefore, for Socrates, justice is a part of virtue.

But if every action performed with a part of virtue is virtue, then what is virtue?

The section on reincarnation:

The soul, because immortal, can recollect things from prior existences.
Learning = recollection.

But then S. uses mathematical logic to ‘prove’ that opinions one thought not to know are in one.

Is virtue a kind of knowledge? Apparently not, because no one is teaching it.



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