Plato's Meno

Name: Plato's Meno
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Plato
ISBN: 9781887250924

Author: Plato

Series: Agora Editions

Narrator: Albert A. Anderson

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Agora Publications

Published: 01/01/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History & Surveys

Synopsis

A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge could be acquired. To answer that puzzle, Socrates questions one of Meno’s servants in an attempt to show that we know fundamental ideas by recollecting them.

About Plato

Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer, and student of Socrates. Most of his works, which form some of the core foundations of Western philosophy, are written in the form of dialogues, in which Socrates often figures prominently. His best-known writings include the Republic, the Apology, the Symposium, Crito, and Statesman. Plato's work addresses such diverse themes as the nature of love, human knowledge and understanding, and the ideal form of government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on June 14, 2020

And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know? Reading this dialogue immediately after reading the Protagoras confronts the......more

Goodreads review by Manny on August 01, 2014

Celebrity Death Match Special: Plato versus Isaac Asimov, part 2 (continued from here) [A spaceport on Trantor. SOCRATES and R. DANEEL OLIVAW] OLIVAW: How are your researches progressing, Socrates? SOCRATES: Alas, poorly, good Olivaw. OLIVAW: I am sorry to hear it. We hope that you may yet discover the......more

Goodreads review by Nikola on November 26, 2020

Nije ni skroz loša ova 2020, trošim vreme na gomilu online predavanja. Među njima je i Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors, besplatno na Courseri. Usput vidim da se Država može čitati i treći put, ali se sa Menonom dosad nisam susretao. Ovde se Sokrat pita "da li se vrlina može naučiti ili......more

Goodreads review by B. P. on December 18, 2017

This is my new philosophy read of the year...at the end of the year. This is Plato's dialogue about the idea of virtue in-general. Meno asks Socrates what virtue is and how do people get it. Of course, this being Socrates the answer or question can not be that simple. First, Socrates wants to define......more

Goodreads review by Davis on September 25, 2024

This is the only logical way to introduce oneself to the works of Plato. It lacks the literary merit of so many others but lays out the Socratic form of discourse in all its glory and is incredibly simple to follow. The debate in the last quarter on the purpose of teaching is especially interesting,......more