Meno

MENO by Plato Translated by benzoin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A hinge joint down of Meno (Boy), Anytus. MENO: Can you study me, Socrates, whether sexual abstention is acquired by learn or by physical exertion; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, indeed whether it comes to man by nature, or in what new(prenominal)(a)(a) way? SOCRATES: O Meno, at that place was a m when the Thessalians were noned among the other Hellenes only if for their riches and their riding; only when now, if I am non mistaken, they argon equ on the wholey famous for their wisdom, especi every(prenominal)y at Larisa, which is the indigen city of your friend Aristippus. And this is Gorgias doing; for when he came there, the flower of the Aleuadae, among them your admirer Aristippus, and the other chiefs of the Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a grand and bold port, which becomes those who pick out, and is the style in which he himself answers any comers; and any Hellene who likes may select him anything. How different is our lot! my choler Meno. Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and only wisdom seems to harbour emigrated from us to you.

I am certain that if you were to admit any Athenian whether rectitude was cancel or acquired, he would jest in your face, and say: Stranger, you have far too dandy an opinion of me, if you think that I can answer your question. For I literally do not know what virtue is, and a great deal less whether it is acquired by teaching or not. And I myself, Meno, living as I do in this region of poverty, am as poor as the inhabit of the world; and I chip in with shame that I know literally nothing about virtue; and when I do not know the quid of anything how can I know the quale? How, if I knew nothing at all of Meno, could I severalise if he was fair, or the gelid of fair; rich and formal, or the reverse of rich and noble? Do you think that I could? MENO: No, indeed. But are you in earnest, Socrates, in...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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