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Socrates direct answer about virtue is that it is unteachable, Socrates does not
believe in the doctrine of recollection to explain why we are in possession of knowledge
about things. But Socrates does argue that knowledge and virtue are so closely related
that no human ever knowingly does evil. Socrates also believes that a life of virtue is
always in a persons best interest. He does not think that anyone could be happy in a life
that was not also morally good. Socrates also believes that with virtue in our lives we can
have Happiness. Socrates thinks you wont need anything else to be happy. Socrates also
believes there are four cardinals to virtue, which are courage, wisdom, justice and self
control, throughout your entire life he thinks you should achieve these, even if you achieve
nothing you will have lived a truly excellent life. I plan to talk about all the sub categories
in virtue in my paper, and mainly just go over how Socrates views it mainly in the two
books i listed. One also can not be virtuous without first knowing what virtue is. Once one
has attained the knowledge of virtue, then according to Socrates, one cannon help but be
virtuous since no one does wrong voluntarily. Socrates saw the elimination of ignorance
as the first stop in leading men to virtue. Because of this Socrates evolved a technique for
testing knowledge by argument and questioning which is know as the "Socratic method".
I plan to mention all these main ideas Socrates has about virtue in my paper I also plan on
researching a lot
more in Platos work.
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