Socrates and Meno have an ongoing debate about virtue. They both find virtue very difficult to define, and in turn, ask the question whether virtue can be taught or whether or not it is acquired naturally. Socrates asks Meno to describe virtue, and continuously ingeniously twists the questions around making Meno have second thoughts about his ideas. Socrates claims that virtue can not be taught, and is only a trait given to a person by God himself. Firstly, I will go into great detail about the debate between Socrates and Meno about virtue. A dialogue between Socrates and Meno's young slave boy will allow me to prove that virtue cannot be classified as knowledge, and since everything knowledgeable can be taught, virtue cannot be taught.
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