PHYS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nicomachean Ethics, Glaucon, Vise
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If virtue can be taught, there must be experts. But there"s no expert on city management in. So virtue, contrast to technical skills, cannot be taught. Also, if virtue can be taught, then the son of virtuous men must be virtuous. Protagoras"s counterarguments: athenians listen to everyone because justice only works when everyone is just. (everyone claims to be just). Thus, everyone has a share in justice , so there"s no expert. Also, people punish wrongdoers to prevent them from repeating the crime, by teaching them through practice and training and teaching. Moreover, everybody is a teacher of virtue, because they benefit from each other. Prota~ thinks that virtue can be taught thru habituation. The law is a guideline to make people virtuous. Why does he answer the way he does? (that is, why is this a reasonable way for him to answer, given what he has said in his great speech ?)
