MENO: PLATO

"Socrates, can you teach?" 1 The conversation started with asking if Mayo can teach vocals to Socrates. At the end of Meno (86 d - 100 b), Socrates tried to answer this question. This question was raised before separating opinion and knowledge, and both felt uneasy. Anytus participated in a conversation about the virtues of Socrates and Meno. Socrates claims to be able to learn if virtue is a kind of knowledge. If it is something other than a kind of knowledge, it will not be taught.

The main purpose of Plato's Menor is to explore the nature of virtue. Therefore, the mouthpiece of Socrates and Plato, and the sophisticated student Menno tried to answer the question "What is virtue"? At first, they did not understand what virtues prompted to ask if Meno should even think that the answer is possible. The problem is how you can find something like virtue when you do not know what you are looking for. If you already know what it is, you do not need to find it; however, if you do not know what it is, how do you know when you find it? The problem of finding something's definition is called "paradox of investigation"

In the eyes of many people, virtues can be easily defined with general moral excellence, but Plato's men asks if virtue can be truly taught. In Plato's melody, Meno began asking whether Socrates could teach virtue, or could not get it, but it could be obtained naturally or in other ways. Socrates insisted that he did not even know what virtue was, so he could not teach it by himself. Then he asked Men to try writing his virtue to him. Meno said that virtue is the desire for money and health and other good things and has the ability to acquire them. He also said that virtue is wisdom and courage, but Socrates is not satisfied with the definition of Meno. Socrates asked how menners can teach virtues if he could not give him a clear definition of virtue.

Plato's Meno offered several possible clues about hostility between Anytus and Socrates. In Meno, Plato reported that the claim of Socrates was not that the great politician could not irritate Antotus in understanding the virtue in the history of Athens. Plato quotes Anytus to warn Socrates: "Socrates, I think you are ready to tell the bad guys: and I will take care of you if you accept my advice I will advise you. "Complain. Socrates has something to do with Antutus' son. Plato says Socrates, "I have a short relationship with the son of Antutus, I think he is not missing in the spirit." Whether or not sexual behavior is included in this relationship is unknown, but like Socrates - Athens' then many men at that time - bisexuals, sleeping with some young students. Enitos almost certainly denied his son's relationship with Socrates. Any dissatisfaction added to Anytus must be Socrates' advice to his son.