Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. It attempts 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.
- ISBN10 1514874113
- ISBN13 9781514874110
- Publish Date 8 July 2015 (first published 1 January 1949)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 August 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Createspace
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 54
- Language English