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Plato's Meno / [edited and translated by] Dominic Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in the dialogues of Plato.
- Cambridge studies in the dialogues of Plato
- Standardized Title:
- Meno. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socrates.
- Virtue--Early works to 1800.
- Virtue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue's many enigmas and attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid and sympathetic to Plato's philosophy. Reading the dialogue as a whole, it explains how different arguments are related to one another and how the interplay between characters is connected to the philosophical content of the work. In a new departure, this book's exploration focuses primarily on the content and coherence of the dialogue in its own right and not merely in the context of other dialogues, making it required reading for all students of Plato, be they from the world of classics or philosophy.
- Contents:
- The opening : 70a-71d
- The first definition : 71e-73c
- A lesson in definition : 73c-77d
- The third definition : 77b-79e
- Meno as an interlocutor
- The stingray : 79e-80d
- 'Meno's paradox' : 80d-81a
- The emergence of recollection : 81a-e
- The argument for recollection : 82b-85d
- The conclusion : 86b6-c2
- The method of hypothesis : 86c-87c
- Virtue is teachable : 87c-89c
- Virtue is not teachable : 89e-96d
- Virtue as true belief : 96d-100b
- Irony in the Meno : the evidence of the Gorgias
- Meno's progress.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14251-2
- 1-280-43235-7
- 0-511-18396-8
- 0-511-14668-X
- 0-511-14566-7
- 0-511-31232-6
- 0-511-48263-9
- 0-511-14655-8
- OCLC:
- 171138070
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