Meno

MENO by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A press down of Meno (Boy), Anytus. MENO: Can you report me, Socrates, whether sexual abstention is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other(a)(a) way? SOCRATES: O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were noted among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their locomote; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equ on the wholey famous for their wisdom, especi every(prenominal)y at Larisa, which is the aborigine 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 delight in with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a magisterial and bold style, which becomes those who spot, and is the style in which he himself answers tout ensemble comers; and every Hellene who likes may lease him anything. How different is our lot! my passion Meno. present at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you.

I am accredited that if you were to ask any Athenian whether virtue was natural or acquired, he would laughter in your face, and say: Stranger, you have farther too peachy an opinion of me, if you think that I back end answer your question. For I literally do not complete what virtue is, and oft less whether it is acquired by teaching or not. And I myself, Meno, living as I do in this r egion of poverty, am as poor as the recess! of the world; and I grant 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 tell if he was fair, or the opposite of fair; rich and noble, or the change by reversal of rich and noble? Do you think that I could? MENO: No, indeed. just are you in earnest, Socrates, in...If you want to get a wide essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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