We don't spend nearly as much time nowadays thinking about how to teach virtue
I've been reading Plato recently, and one thing that's stood out, at least in the early dialogues, is the emphasis on how to teach virtue. Over and over, Socrates either challenges the sophists for their inability to teach people to be good, or he is challenged and asked whether he knows how to teach people to be good (I'm still pretty early on in the o…
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