Meno by Plato [PDF]
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Few people know that the man who warns Socrates to be careful in Meno was one of the accusers at his trial. Anytus tells him that in Athens "it is easier to do men harm than good," and a few years later he helped bring the charges that ended in Socrates' death.
This version of Meno in PDF is our own edition from Project Aldus: the complete dialogue, set so you always know who is speaking and can go back to the geometry lesson with its diagrams right where Socrates points to them.
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Meno by Plato
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Information: Meno
- Author: Plato.
- Publication Date: Approximately in the year 380 B.C.
- Main Characters:
- Socrates: Greek philosopher.
- Meno: Noble youth.
- Anytus: Athenian politician.
- Brief Summary: Socrates and Meno discuss the possibility of teaching virtue. Through an engaging dialogue, Socrates guides Meno toward the discovery of innate knowledge. Together, they explore themes of ethics, knowledge, and the nature of virtue.
- Thematic Analysis: "Meno" raises fundamental questions about the acquisition of knowledge and the possibility of teaching moral virtues. The dialogue focuses on Plato's theory of recollection, suggesting that knowledge is not learned but remembered.
- Historical Context: Plato wrote Meno in Athens in the early fourth century BC and set it around 402 BC, a few years before Socrates was tried and executed in 399 BC. Meno was a young aristocrat from Thessaly who had studied with the sophist Gorgias, and Anytus, who joins the conversation, was a leading Athenian democrat and one of Socrates' three accusers.
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