What are the characteristics of virtue?
- Compared to colors. All virtues have a special characteristic that makes them all virtues.
- virtue is not knowledge so it is not teachable.
- knowledge is not virtue (being virtuous is not dependent on what we know).
- virtue is a good thing.
- virtue is part of wisdom.
You cant say that you have a right opinion. You can have A opinion, which might be either right or wrong. Some external force is the one that will have to say whether it is correct or not.
True opinion is only fit if it has been proved.
Socrates knows that the search for knowing is essential.
There is something about the nature of knowledge that is not virtuous.
Once you have received the gift manifested as a correct opinion it doesn't mean that we have knowledge that what we are saying is right..
"We should call no less divine and inspired those public men who are no less under the gods' influence and possession, as their speeches lead to success in many important matters, though they have no knowledge of what they are saying."
"Virtue would be neither an inborn quality nor taught, but comes to those who posses it as a gift from the gods which is not accompanied by understanding."
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