id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1643 Plato Meno .txt text/plain 22294 1786 83 Socrates said that virtue is knowledge, so Spinoza would have maintained MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching SOCRATES: When you say, Meno, that there is one virtue of a man, another MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in MENO: Yes, Socrates; I agree there; for justice is virtue. MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless he MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it ./cache/1643.txt ./txt/1643.txt