[78d]
Socrates
Very well: procuring gold and silver is virtue, according to Meno, the ancestral friend of the Great King. Tell me, do you add to such procuring, Meno, that it is to be done justly and piously, or is this indifferent to you, but even though a man procures these things unjustly, do you call them virtue all the same?Meno
Surely not, Socrates.Socrates
Rather, vice.Meno
Yes, of course.Socrates
Then it seems that justice or temperance or holiness or some other part of virtue must accompany the procuring of these things;
Very well: procuring gold and silver is virtue, according to Meno, the ancestral friend of the Great King. Tell me, do you add to such procuring, Meno, that it is to be done justly and piously, or is this indifferent to you, but even though a man procures these things unjustly, do you call them virtue all the same?Meno
Surely not, Socrates.Socrates
Rather, vice.Meno
Yes, of course.Socrates
Then it seems that justice or temperance or holiness or some other part of virtue must accompany the procuring of these things;
