Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Meno by Plato
“Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?”
Meno, 70a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)
The abrupt first line of the dialogue sets the question that the whole conversation tries to answer.
Citation: "Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?" — Plato, Meno, 70a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q1)
