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9780521104685

Plato's Meno

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521104685

  • ISBN10:

    0521104688

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The opening: 70andash;71d
The first definition: 71endash;73c
A lesson in definition: 73cndash;77d
The third definition: 77bndash;79e
Meno as interlocutor
The stingray: 79endash;80d
'Meno's paradox': 80dndash;81a
The emergence of recollection: 81andash;e
The argument for recollection: 82bndash;85d
The conclusion: 86b6ndash;c2
The method of hyposthesis: 86cndash;87c
Virtue is teachable: 87cndash;89c
Virtue is not teachable: 89endash;96d
Virtue as true belief: 96dndash;100b
Irony in the Meno: the evidence of the Gorgias
Meno's progress
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Indexes
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