Tag: Adviser

• May 6, 2013

  A philosopher is neither a teller nor a listener

  The brash, young, wealthy aristocrat approaches Socrates and says to him, ‘Can you tell me, Socrates, can virtue be taught? Or is it not teachable but the result of practice, or is it neither of these, but men possess it by nature or in some other way?’ (Meno 70a). Meno wants to be told, perhaps he even…