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1913 | Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? [Plato] |
Full Idea: Is virtue something that can be taught, or does it come by practice, or is it a natural aptitude, or something else? | |
From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 70a) |
1921 | If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught [Plato] |
Full Idea: If virtue is some sort of knowledge, then clearly it could be taught. | |
From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 87c) |
1927 | It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift [Plato] |
Full Idea: If our discussion is right, virtue is acquired neither by nature nor by teaching. Whoever has it gets it by divine dispensation, without taking thought. | |
From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 99e) |
1918 | How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? [Plato] |
Full Idea: Does anyone know what a part of virtue is without knowing the whole? | |
From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 79c) |
1916 | Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues [Plato] |
Full Idea: Even if virtues are many and various, at least they all have some common character which makes them all virtues. | |
From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 72c) |
20692 | Money does produce happiness, but only up to a point [Harari] |
Full Idea: An interesting conclusion (from questionnaires) is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. | |
From: Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: brief history of humankind [2014], 19 'Counting') | |
A reaction: The question is whether that flattening-off point is relative to those around us, or absolute, according to the needs of living. Though these two may not be separate. |