Another Pheron Dialogue Discovered!
Pheron, who lived several centuries prior to the birth of Jesus H. Christ, the main character of the Bible, is considered the leader of a school of thought typically referred to as something. Pheron’s apprentice and influential ancient Athenian thinker in his own right, John Cho, wrote the Pheronic dialogues to record the man’s philosophies and dialectic methods which influence Western and Mid-Western thought today still. The one most recently discovered is right below:
Of Virtue
Mylo: Can you tell me, Pheron, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?
Pheron: O Mylo, I could only answer that if I knew what is meant by this word “virtue.�
Mylo: Are you in earnest, Pheron, in saying that you do not know what virtue is?
Pheron: Not only that, my dear boy, but I am positing that you too do not know what virtue is.
Mylo: Why it’s quite easy. It’s simply moral excellence; righteousness.
Pheron: Yes. But what does it mean to be moral?
Mylo: To be good.
Pheron: Oh. Okay, that makes sense now. I thought moral was maybe a type of…Doesn’t matter. Okay. So, yeah, now virtue also makes sense.