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Philo: Please tell me, is virtue attained by education or is it by practice?
Socrates: Pardon me for being unable to answer your question. I do not not know what the word virtue stands for.
Philo: It is not hard at all. For men, virtue means managing the country in order. For women, it means doing household chores dutifully and respecting their husband. People of differerent ages and in different situations have different set of virtue.
Socrates: So regrettable. I asked you about virtue, you repled by stating before me a dozen of virtues. It is like telling me telling me there are many kinds of bees such as hornet, honey bee and long-legged bee, when I asked you what a bee is. What you have said are considered virtues. But can you tell me what they have in common to explain what virtue is all about?
Philo: So I tell you, virtue is the power to control people.
Socrates: Can your defintion applied to all deeds that are seen as virtue? Is it applicable to slaves and children? A child^s power to control his father is a virtue, isn^t it?
Philo: Certainly not.
Socrates: Control could be just or could be unjust. Unjust control is a virtue, isn^t it?
Philo: I was wrong. I should have said, virtue is to control justly.
Socrates: What you said is about virtue, or is it about virtuous deeds?
Philo: I do not understand.
Socrates: An example will make you undertand. We often say a circle is a kind of shape. We do not say a circle is shape. It is because shape could mean things other than a circle, for instance, a triangle and a rectangle.
Philo: I see. Justice is a virtuous deed. In addition, courage, restraint, wisdom are all virtues.
Socrates: You are again stating before me a string of virtues, aren^t you?
以上只是本人按文意所作, 這篇可能是一篇著名的對話, 可能有流行已久的版本, 請注意.
