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Meno — Socrates

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Meno

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Meno of Thessaly asks whether virtue can be taught. Socrates replies that one must first know what it is, and faced with the paradox of how to search for what one does not know he questions a slave about a geometry problem to show that learning is recollection (anamnesis). At the end Anytus, one of Socrates' future accusers, appears and warns him of the danger of speaking ill of Athenians.

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Authorship note

A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.

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English

  • Protagoras and Meno — Socrates

    Protagoras and Meno

    Penguin Classics, 2005

    Translation: Adam Beresford

    ISBN 9780140449037

  • Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo — Socrates

    Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    Hackett Publishing, 2002

    Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper

    ISBN 9780872206335

    2.ª edición; registro de Open Library de 2005.

  • Meno

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

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Español

  • Menón o de la virtud (argumento y facsímil)

    Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Tomo 4 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.

    View in store · Filosofía en español (gratuito)

Other works by Socrates

Sources

  • Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).

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