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to be teachers of virtue?Meno
That is a point, Socrates, for which I admire Gorgias: you will never hear him promising this, and he ridicules the others when he hears them promise it. Skill in speaking is what he takes it to be their business to produce.Socrates
Then you do not think the sophists are teachers of virtue?Meno
I cannot say, Socrates. I am in the same plight as the rest of the world: sometimes I think that they are, sometimes that they are not.Socrates
And are you aware that not only you and other political folk
That is a point, Socrates, for which I admire Gorgias: you will never hear him promising this, and he ridicules the others when he hears them promise it. Skill in speaking is what he takes it to be their business to produce.Socrates
Then you do not think the sophists are teachers of virtue?Meno
I cannot say, Socrates. I am in the same plight as the rest of the world: sometimes I think that they are, sometimes that they are not.Socrates
And are you aware that not only you and other political folk
