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Virtue in the cave : moral inquiry in Plato's Meno / Roslyn Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Roslyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Meno.
- Plato.
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Moral inquiry in Plato's Meno
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Representing a new interpretation of Plato's 'Meno', this text takes and defends the position that Plato's work is a self-conscious analysis and assessment of the worth not of inquiry itself, but more specifically of moral inquiry.
- Contents:
- Introduction. In the Cave
- 1. Struggle over Definition
- 2. Impasse, Paradox, and the Myth of Learning by Recollection
- 3. Slave-Boy: Learning by Demonstration
- 4. Road to Larisa: Knowledge, True Opinion, and Eudoxia
- Conclusion. Examined Life
- App. I. Recollection in the Phaedo
- App. II. Abandonment of Moral Inquiry in the Republic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-217) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 1-281-98895-2
- 9786611988951
- 0-19-803226-9
- OCLC:
- 427507886
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