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Meno

Meno

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by Plato Plato
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/03/2019

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What is virtue? Can it be learned or is it innate? Is it possible to know things a priori (before experience)?

In this important and influential Socratic dialogue, Plato addresses a wealth of philosophy's fundamental questions, including the difference between actually knowing something and merely maintaining a correct belief about it.

The dialogue begins when Meno, a young aristocrat from Thessaly, confidently declares that he can define virtue - only to be reduced in short order to utter confusion, a fate common to those engaging in debate with Socrates.

Meno's contention that a concept cannot be defined without knowledge of its nature leads to one of the most celebrated passages in the history of philosophy: Socrates asserts the doctrine of reincarnation, and by posing a mathematical puzzle to Meno's slave, demonstrates the existence of innate knowledge.

This brief but profound dialogue, which forms the basis for subsequent examinations of a priori knowledge, appears here in the translation by the distinguished scholar Benjamin Jowett.

ISBN:
9780486831787
9780486831787
Category:
Philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-03-2019
Publisher:
Dover Publications Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
96
Dimensions (mm):
203x126x5mm
Weight:
0.08kg

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