Note 98 — Chapter XXXI · KRATYLUS.

See my remarks on the Politikus, in the last chapter: also Protagoras, p. 320 seq.

Compare Plato, Kriton, p. 48 A. ὁ ἐπαΐων περὶ τω δικαίων, ὁ εἷς.

In the Menon also the same question is broached as in the Protagoras, whether virtue is teachable or not? and how any virtue can exist, when there are no special teachers, and no special learners of virtue? Here we have, though differently handled, the same antithesis between the ethical sentiment which grows and propagates itself unconsciously, without special initiative — and that which is deliberately prescribed and imparted by the wise individual: common sense versus professional specialty.