Meno
by Plato
Original title: Μένων · 112 pages · about 2 hours to read
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Text and essays edited by Malcom Brown: St. Augustine / From On the teacher ; G.W. Leibniz / From Discourse on metaphysics ; Friedrich Nietzsche / From Introduction to the study of the Platonic dialogues ; F.M. Cornford / Anamnesis; Karl Popper / The nature of philosophical problems and their roots in science ; H.-P. Stahl / beginnings of propositional logic in Plato ; Malcolm Brown / Plato disapproves of the slave-boy's answer ; Gilbert Ryle / Teaching and training ; Martin Andic / Inquiry and virtue in the Meno.
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‘O yes--nothing easier: there is the virtue of a man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is a virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.’
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“We seem to find that the ideal of knowledge is irreconcilable with experience.”
“Modern philosophy, like ancient, begins with very simple conceptions. It is almost wholly a reflection on self.”
“MENO: The difference, Socrates, is only that he who has knowledge will always be right; but he who has right opinion will sometimes be right, and sometimes not.”
“MENO: What you are saying, Socrates, seems to be very like the truth.”
Passages from the book's public-domain text on Project Gutenberg. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.
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