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Plato's Meno "Can Virtue be Taught?" In Webster’s New World College Dictionary virtue is defined as, “general moral excellence; right action and thinking; goodness or morality” . It appears, by Websters’ standards, that virtue can easily be defined. However, the true question in Plato’s “Meno” is simply whether or not virtue can be taught. In Plato’s “Meno”, Meno asks Socrates, the great philosopher, whether or not virtue can be taught, or if men …

…qualities within our society and we can surely look to them to get some of the answers that we may be searching for. Even if we developed a universal definition as to what virtue means, it would not truly change our society in which we live. Therefore, we must conclude that, although we are teachers of the arts of goodness we should look to the moral experts and experiences within our own society and ourselves.