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Meno
Plato · Classical · c. 385 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
8 chapters
A dialogue on whether virtue can be taught, in which Socrates leads Meno's untutored slave to discover a geometric truth — the locus classicus of Plato's doctrine of recollection.
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Contents
- 1Can Virtue Be Taught? Defining Virtue
- 2Figure, Colour, and the Form
- 3Meno's Paradox: How Do We Search for What We Don't Know?
- 4The Slave Boy and the Doctrine of Recollection
- 5From Recollection to the Hypothesis Method
- 6Anytus: The Sophists and the Athenian Gentlemen
- 7Why the Great Men Could Not Teach Their Sons
- 8Virtue as Divine Dispensation
