Comparing Views On 'Virtue In Socrates Meno'

The Meno – “No one wants what is bad” (78a). During Socrates and Meno’s search to find out what virtue is, they “have found many virtues while looking for one” (74a). Their conversation had led to many different responses but one proved to be vastly interesting. Socrates states “No one wants what is bad” (78a). After many of Meno’s thoughts of what virtue was had been discarded, Meno believes “virtue is to desire beautiful things and have the power to acquire them” (77b). Socrates reply is that if the man that desires beauty will also desire good things. What he is trying to say is that since beauty is considered a good thing, a person who desires to have beautiful things only wants what is good. Meno believes that not all men want good