Socrates & Virtue

My Socrates book tells me that Socrates claims that: "to behave virtuously there is a certain body of knowledge that must be required- knowledge presumably of the meaning of moral terms such as justice, piety, etc. Only if we know these can we be excellent and efficient in moral conduct.
'Noone does wrong willingly.' If we do wrong it is because we have acted in ignorance of justice or piety or some other moral term."

And so all this can be ultimately condensed to virtue being a matter of linguistics. To be virtuous all we have to do is figure out what the word 'virtuous' means, and all the rest will follow. Utopia would inevitably arise from everyone's being on good terms with an ideal dictionary. Thank goodness words like virtue and goodness exist, otherwise we would be in right trouble. My advice is if you're ever charged with murder, plead total ignorance of the word or concept 'murder'.
Notes From Underground is justifiably scathing at the continuing faith in this infantile notion of virtue's being fully bound up with knowledge, and how man cannot do wrong intentionally. What it probably essentially amounts to is man is a slave and he just has to bind himself to the right master, ie Reason, and all his problems will be solved. Only a slave could conceive of this in the first place.