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Plato’s dialogues are among the most popular of all writings from classical .

Plato’s dialogues are among the most popular of all writings from classical antiquity. Plato wrote his dialogues to record the wisdom that Socrates had imparted to his students. Plato’s works Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo are featured in this collection.

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The answer which is given by Plato is paradoxical enough, and seems . The place of the Meno in the series is doubtfully indicated by internal evidence. In the tenth book they are represented as the genera or general ideas under which individuals having a common name are contained.

The answer which is given by Plato is paradoxical enough, and seems rather intended to stimulate than to satisfy enquiry. Virtue is knowledge, and therefore virtue can be taught. But virtue is not taught, and therefore in this higher and ideal sense there is no virtue and no knowledge. The main character of the Dialogue is Socrates; but to the ‘general definitions’ of Socrates is added the Platonic doctrine of reminiscence.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Then, Meno, the conclusion is that virtue comes to the virtuous by the gift of God. But we shall never know the certain truth until, before asking how virtue is given, we enquire into the actual nature of virtue

Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue MENO SOCRATES A SLAVE OF MENO ANYTUS. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way? Socrates. But we shall never know the certain truth until, before asking how virtue is given, we enquire into the actual nature of virtue. I fear that I must go away, but do you, now that you are persuaded yourself, persuade our friend Anytus.

Benjamin Jowett (/ˈdʒoʊɪt/, modern variant /ˈdʒaʊɪt/; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford.

Benjamin Jowett (/ˈdʒoʊɪt/, modern variant /ˈdʒaʊɪt/; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Jowett was born in Peckham, Kent, and grew up in Camberwell, the third of nine children

Plato's most disturbing political dialogue

Plato's most disturbing political dialogue. Benardete, btw, is something of a rarity these days, a & student of Leo Strauss.