Dialogue

 1 Intro|         whether such knowledge can be taught, if Protagoras had not assured
 2 Intro|              political virtues can be taught and acquired, in the opinion
 3 Intro|          saying that virtue cannot be taught. He is not satisfied with
 4 Intro|              2) Whether virtue can be taught. Protagoras declines this
 5 Intro|        maintaining that virtue can be taught (which Socrates himself,
 6 Intro|               one, then virtue can be taught; the end of the Dialogue
 7 Intro|              1) that virtue cannot be taught; (2) that the virtues are
 8 Intro|      knowledge. That virtue cannot be taught is a paradox of the same
 9 Intro|             out of him; and cannot be taught by rhetorical discourses
10 Intro|              if the virtues are to be taught, they must be reducible
11 Intro|                 whether virtue can be taught,’ and the relation of Meno
12  Prot|               art is capable of being taught, and yet I know not how
13  Prot|               that this art cannot be taught or communicated by man to
14  Prot|           they think capable of being taught and learned. And if some
15  Prot|           sort of knowledge cannot be taught. And not only is this true
16  Prot|        department of politics neither taught them, nor gave them teachers;
17  Prot|           think that virtue cannot be taught. But then again, when I
18  Prot|            clearly that virtue can be taught. Will you be so good?~That
19  Prot|               be a thing which may be taught; and which comes to a man
20  Prot|            virtue is capable of being taught. This is the notion of all
21  Prot|            virtue may be acquired and taught. Thus far, Socrates, I have
22  Prot|         virtue to be capable of being taught and acquired.~There yet
23  Prot|        grown-up man or woman, must be taught and punished, until by punishment
24  Prot|              good men have their sons taught other things and not this,
25  Prot|               virtue capable of being taught and cultivated both in private
26  Prot| notwithstanding, they have their sons taught lesser matters, ignorance
27  Prot|          mischief; and when they have taught him the use of the lyre,
28  Prot|           doubt whether virtue can be taught? Cease to wonder, for the
29  Prot|               his fellow-workmen have taught them to the best of their
30  Prot|               show that virtue may be taught, and that this is the opinion
31  Prot|             saying that virtue can be taught;—that I will take upon your
32  Prot|               lessons which they have taught them. And in Lacedaemon
33  Prot|               I am speaking cannot be taught, neither go yourselves,
34  Prot|            denying that virtue can be taught—would also become clear.
35  Prot|          saying that virtue cannot be taught, contradicting yourself
36  Prot|               virtue can certainly be taught; for if virtue were other
37  Prot|              clearly virtue cannot be taught; but if virtue is entirely
38  Prot|            virtue is capable of being taught. Protagoras, on the other
39  Prot|               saying that it might be taught, is now eager to prove it
40  Prot|              quite incapable of being taught.’ Now I, Protagoras, perceiving
41  Prot|              whether capable of being taught or not, lest haply Epimetheus