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Full Idea
Socrates believed that basically there is only one virtue, the power of right judgement.
Gist of Idea
Socrates believed that basically there is only one virtue, the power of right judgement
Source
report of Socrates (reports of career [c.420 BCE]) by Bernard Williams - Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy Ch.1
Book Ref
Williams,Bernard: 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy' [Fontana 1985], p.9
A Reaction
Which links with Aristotle's high place for 'phronesis' (prudence?). The essence of Socrates' intellectualism. Robots and saints make very different judgements, though.