PHIL V 2100y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sophist, Anytus, Christian Mortalism
4 Nov 2015
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Socrates believes is the first step to actually learning real knowledge) Meno wants to know whether virtue can be taught, but socrates shows him that he doesn"t even know what virtue is. You can"t define a term by using the term in the definition. Socrates claims that learning is a recollection of things our soul knew before we were alive; all knowledge is already inside us; we must recollect what we once knew. They conclude that virtue is at least partly a kind of wisdom (though not necessarily. However, since they can"t come up with anyone who is a teacher of virtue, it appears that virtue cannot be taught, and therefore is not knowledge (because knowledge can be taught) Socrates says that men are not virtuous only out of knowledge; virtuous men"s good deeds could be the result of knowledge or of true opinion .
