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How Does Plato Solve The Paradox Of Inquiry In The Meno?, Michael Morgan
How Does Plato Solve The Paradox Of Inquiry In The Meno?, Michael Morgan
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In this paper I shall focus on a passage in Plato’s dialogue, the Meno, that has received wide and serious attention of late. It is that stretch of the Meno (80d-86c) that incorporates Meno’s eristic puzzle, the doctrine of recollection, Socrates’ interrogation of Meno’s slave-boy, and the sequel to that interrogation. I shall try to show that this text is transitional and doubly so, for, on the one hand, within the context of the Meno it marks the transition between the earlier elenchoi concerning the nature of arete and the employment of the method of hypothesis concerning whether arete is …