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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 …
Sophrosune As Quietness, L. Aryeh Kosman
Sophrosune As Quietness, L. Aryeh Kosman
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aryeh Kosman writes: When I presented it, as I recall, I read a silly little poem for the occasion, (nods to W. Gilbert) which delighted Rosamond Kent Sprague (who chaired the session) no end:
Sophrosyne in the soul
Leads to quiet self control
Which is not the same
As Dolce far niente
Fast or slow as he may please
The Sophron acts with quiet ease
As the ancient Romans said
Festina Lente.