There are two claims which help make sense on the claim of Socrates that knowledge is virtue.

Socrates quotes virtue. Those then who know not wisdom and virtue and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality go down and up again as far as the mean. Socratess theory of virtue states that all virtues are essentially one since they are a form of knowledge. A Greek philosopher from Athens Socrates is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

But where I could do the greatest good privately to everyone of you thither I went and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests and look to the State before he looks to the interests of the State. His philosophical thinking focuses on THE VIRTUE understood as knowledge as knowing how to act well. He didnt have any written accounts so his teachings came from classical writers his student Plato in particular.

If someone has knowledge of the danger he can undertake risks. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness for it runs faster than death. Socrates claimed that virtue is knowledge.

In reading Socrates argument I find that while his doubt that virtue is teachable knowledge is justified the evidence he uses is flawed. Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

Virtue is knowledge and knowledge is virtue. And in this region they move at random throughout life but they never pass into the. Guthrie p61 In brilliantly conceived arguments Socrates proves to his colleague that.

In the latter half of Platos Meno Socrates doubts whether virtue is a type of teachable knowledge and instead argues that it is a result of true opinion 97b. He identifies that two terms as being identical Reshotko 2006. Thus Socrates asserts that if virtue is.