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What Is Virtue Can It Be Learned or Is It Innate Is It Possible To Know Things A Priori (before Experience) In This Important And Influential Socratic Dialogue, Plato Addresses A Wealth Of Philosophy's Fundamental Questions, Including The Difference Between Actually Knowing Something And Merely Maintaining A Correct Belief About It. The Dialogue Begins When Meno, A Young Aristocrat From Thessaly, Confidently S That He Can Define Virtue&only To Be Reduced In Short Order To Utter Confusion, A Fate Common To Those Engaging In Debate With Socrates. Meno's Contention That A Concept Cannot Be Defined Without Knowledge Of Its Nature Leads To One Of The Most Celebrated Passages In The History Of Philosophy: Socrates Asserts The Doctrine Of Reincarnation, And By Posing A Mathematical Puzzle To Meno's Slave, Demonstrates The Existence Of Innate Knowledge. This Brief But Profound Dialogue, Which Forms The Basis For Subsequent Examinations Of A Priori Knowledge, Appears Here In The Translation By The Distinguished Scholar Benjamin Jowett.

What Is Virtue Can It Be Learned or Is It Innate Is It Possible To Know Things A Priori (before Experience) In This Important And Influential Socratic Dialogue, Plato Addresses A Wealth Of Philosophy's Fundamental Questions, Including The Difference Between Actually Knowing Something And Merely Maintaining A Correct Belief About It. The Dialogue Begins When Meno, A Young Aristocrat From Thessaly, Confidently S That He Can Define Virtue&only To Be Reduced In Short Order To Utter Confusion, A Fate Common To Those Engaging In Debate With Socrates. Meno's Contention That A Concept Cannot Be Defined Without Knowledge Of Its Nature Leads...  Read More