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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wildside Press LLC, 2018
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781479418411 (electronic bk.) MWT12672011, 1479418412 (electronic bk.) 12672011
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. It appears to attempt to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The first part of the work is written in the Socratic dialectical style and Meno is reduced to confusion or aporia. In response to Meno's paradox (or the learner's paradox), however, Socrates introduces positive ideas: the immortality of the soul, the theory of knowledge as recollection (anamnesis), which Socrates demonstrates by posing a mathematical puzzle to one of Meno's slaves, the method of hypothesis, and, in the final lines, the distinction between knowledge and true belief
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