What were the definitions of Virtue?
In one of Platos early dialogues, the Meno, Socrates tries to define virtue in terms of an absolute, unchanging, concept that is devoid of human consequences and input. He believed that the human soul is immortal and throughout time, it has learned everything that there is to know. Consequently, it is merely necessary to recollect the information and bring it back into the conscious memory of the individual. (2) There is nothing new to learn and nothing can change. To prove his point he involves one of Menos untutored slaves to recollect how to find the length of the sides of a square that has an area of eight square feet. (3) He is also of the belief that there is a single body of thought, that all knowledge can be unified under, and that it can be defined with precision in the same way that the theoretical sciences of mathematics, physics and metaphysics can. Even though the practical sciences, such as politics and ethics, are based upon human considerations, he still believes that t
