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Meno Assignment
Plato in answering the question whether virtue can be taught concludes that it (virtue) cannot be taught and it is not innate. Plato ends the dialogue stating that virtue must come from "divine allotment incomprehensibly (without mind)." (pg. 67) This emptiness that Plato leaves us is very consistent with much of his previous dialogues. This vague conclusion was founded on the lack of knowledge of what virtue is. This seems to leave one in more of preponderance in the truth of the matter then when one started reading; it directs people to think in a more demanding way then they were expecting. But Plato (Socrates) gives some premises on his reasoning that virtue can not be taught.
Before Plato begins he must answer a paradoxical question in order for progression in this matter. A matter is discussed on how does one look for something if he/she does not know what it is? How does one look for virtue if he/she does not even know where to look? Plato states hear that our soul is actually immortal and it has seen all things in previous lives. There is nothing which has not learned. So according to Plato, learning is really a process of recollection in which the soul comes to remember what it already knew before its current human life span. So this answers the paradox that one would have.
Plato moves on to state a hypothesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge, thus making it teachable. Plato goes onto state that virtue is helpful or beneficial (pg 53-54) for the soul and what is beneficial or helpful is only so in the context of wisdom, it would seem that "virtue is wisdom, either in whole or in part." (pg 54) This leads us to believe that yes, virtue is teachable and "nature would not make men good." But right after this progress, Plato states that though virtue may appear to be teachable he has yet to meet a teacher of one. There are teachers for other crafts (medicine, craftsmanship, etc.) and everybody...
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