- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, Socrates reaches his final conclusion about virtue, which is—in truth—not very conclusive. Indeed, after spending the entire dialogue interrogating the nature of virtue and conducting philosophical investigations that utilize logic and reason, Socrates surrenders himself to the idea that virtue is “a gift from the gods which is not accompanied by understanding.” Having proved that virtue is “neither an inborn quality nor taught,” Socrates finds himself at a philosophical impasse, unable to determine how, exactly, humans acquire virtue. To solve this problem, he suggests not only that virtue is god-given, but that this process cannot be understood…