Meno
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
1h 50m
21,849 words
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The Meno opens with a deceptively simple question: is virtue taught, practised, or innate? In trying to answer it, Socrates introduces the doctrine of recollection — that learning is the soul's remembering — and demonstrates the idea by guiding an untutored slave boy through a geometry proof. A short, crystalline dialogue that sets the stage for Plato's epistemology and his later theory of forms.
