ABSTRACT
In a number of dialogues Socrates asks for the ‘definition’ of a virtue or some other normative concept. He asks about piety in the Euthyphro; about courage in the Laches; about self-discipline (in Greek: sō phrosynō ) in the Charmides; about justice in the first book of the Republic; about friendship in the Lysis; and about beauty in the Hippias Major. These dialogues constitute an effective answer to the charges of godlessness and the seduction of youth. Viewed together they are a catalogue of acknowledged Greek virtues and basic aesthetic-moral concepts.
