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Virtue in the cave : moral inquiry in Plato's Meno / Roslyn Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Roslyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Meno.
- Plato.
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- 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:
- ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: In the Cave""; ""ONE: The Struggle over Definition""; ""i. Meno""; ""ii. What Is Virtue? Round 1""; ""iii. What Is a Good Definition?""; ""iv. What Is Virtue? Round 2""; ""TWO: Impasse, Paradox, and the Myth of Learning by Recollection""; ""i. Impasse""; ""ii. Meno's Paradox""; ""iii. Socrates' Paradox""; ""iv. The Myth of Learning by Recollection""; ""THREE: The Slave-Boy: Learning by Demonstration""; ""i. Geometry and Virtue""; ""ii. The Diagram""; ""iii. The Demonstration""; ""iv. The Summaries""; ""v. The Disavowal""
- ""FOUR: The Road to Larisa: Knowledge, True Opinion, and Eudoxia""""i. Hypothetical Method""; ""ii. Is Virtue Knowledge?""; ""iii. Father and Son""; ""iv. Are There Teachers of Virtue?""; ""v. True Opinion and Aitias Logismos""; ""vi. Eudoxia and Divine Dispensation""; ""Conclusion: The Examined Life""; ""i. The Unattainability of Knowledge by Ordinary Human Beings""; ""ii. The Value of True Opinion""; ""iii. The Possibility of Achieving Virtue without Wisdom""; ""Appendix I: Recollection in the Phaedo""; ""Appendix II: The Abandonment of Moral Inquiry in the Republic""; ""Bibliography""
- 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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