Burnyeat, Myles (1980). Aristotle on learning to be good. In Amélie Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle's Ethics. University of California Press. pp. 69–92. The question "Can virtue be taught" is perhaps the oldest question in moral philosophy. Recall the opening of Plato's Meno (70a): "Can you tell me, Socrates—can virtue be taught, or is it rather to be acquired by practice? Or is it neither to ..