Knowledge is in itself complete and independent, self- sufficient. Thus, virtue is one and it is knowledge. Socrates wanted to make ethics a science for that we need a base principle foundation.

Who said that knowledge is virtue?

Socrates claimed that virtue is knowledge. He identifies that two terms as being identical (Reshotko, 2006). Virtue is knowledge and knowledge is virtue.

What is the meaning of knowledge is virtue ignorance is vice?

paradox "Virtue is Knowledge" has as its complement the doctrine. that vice is ignorance.' While Plato's readers never find such an aphorism. as "Vice is Ignorance" stated categorically in the texts, it is interpreted. to mean that in Plato's view moral evil is the result of ignorance.