PHIL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Art Theft
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** when reading, pay attention to the subtext. Like an instrument the more you play, the better you get. The more you act virtuous, the more you become virtuous. Socrates: i don"t even know what virtue is. Meno: a man"s virtue consists of being able to manage public affairs [a woman] must manage the home well [etc] . Virtue is not these ^^, it is what they have in common. Socrates wants to know why these are good, why these traits are considered virtuous. Is there a difference between giving a definition and giving examples? meno"s first definition doesn"t work because examples are not definitions. Meno: give me a definition for a color without giving examples. A definition should explain what all its objects have in common with each other. Two definitions of shape: shape is that which alone of existing things always follows color, a shape is the limit of a solid.
