From the Beginning to Plato

430 GLOSSARY
virtue, Socratic: the translation of aretē (q.v.) in Plato’s early
dialogues. For Socrates, virtue is the expertise (q.v.)
of living well. See also ‘eudaimonism’.
virtues, unity of: the view espoused by Socrates, but more doubtfully
by Plato after his tripartition (q.v.) of the soul, that to
have one virtue (aretē, q.v.) is to have all the virtues.
well ordered: of a set, having a linear ordering in which every subset
‘What is F-ness?’
question:
has a first member.
the question, generally asked about a particular
aretē (q.v.), e.g. courage (Laches), piety
(Euthyphro), or aretē in general (Meno), which
preoccupies the early dialogues of Plato.
wisdom, Socratic: Socrates’ recognition that he alone among his
contemporaries is aware that he lacks the expertise of
virtue (q.v.).