Meno by Plato
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Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE
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"Meno" by Plato is a philosophical dialogue written in the late 5th century BC. The work primarily engages with the question of whether virtue can be taught and seeks to define what virtue itself is. At the center of the dialogue are Meno, a young Thessalian aristocrat, and Socrates, the famed philosopher, as they explore various propositions regar...
Socrates about the teachability of virtue, proposing various definitions that Socrates deftly critiques. As they discuss the concept of virtue, Meno suggests that there are many kinds of virtue corresponding to different roles (for men, women, children, etc.), but Socrates challenges him to find a unifying definition. This leads to a deeper inquiry into knowledge itself, with Socrates proposing that learning is a form of recollection due to the immortality of the soul. The dialogue illustrates a process of dialectical inquiry, revealing both characters' evolving understanding of virtue, knowledge, and the nature of teaching. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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