Topics of conversation Menon Menon Intro- Menon’s Question –can virtue be taught?- Or boes it come by practice; teaching; Birth; neither teaching nor practice; or some other way? -Socrates reaction to Menon’s question- Socrates must add brains to list of qualities for which people from Thessdy are known as –being good horsemen -Having full purses -Menon must think Socrates is inspired -If Menon were to ask this question of any ordinary Athenian, …showed first 75 words of 367 total…

…showed last 75 words of 367 total…Socrates critism-cannot be to desire handsome things because to desire handsome things is universal to all humans and that noone desires bad things because bad things makes people miserable and wretched and no one wants to be miserable. -cannot be able to get things because getting good things just by itself is neither virtues/vicious. That getting things unjustly is a vice, and getting things justly is to get them with a bit of virtue