Virtue

"To be a good human being it is good enough to know what human virtue is." (76)

Do serial killers know what human virtue is? Do rapists or thieves? If someone knows what a virtuous human being is, it does not make them virtuous and does not make them a good person. You can know that you are doing wrong and know what is right but simply knowing what is right is not enough. You need to practice at being nice, and good and doing well. 


Everyone is taught through their life, don't do this, do that, say please etc.  As we grow up we can make our own decisions about whether we follow the rules of being a good person. If we all simply were virtuous by nature of knowing what virtue was there would be no police, no crime, no murder. Everyone is taught what being a good person is and what virtue is, we choose whether or not we abide by these standards. Plato is naive to say that a person is virtuous by knowing the nature of the word. At least in modern day life there are examples of those who know better yet still do wrong. CEO's know that they should pay taxes and it is illegal to evade paying them however they pay less percentage in taxes than almost every other group of people. These CEO's have all gone to school, know enough to run a business and learned as much as any other person about right or wrong yet they choose to not do right in this aspect of their life.