Platos Meno

The question of what knowledge, virtue, and what is the soul is the most important issue in philosophy. The soul can be defined as the ultimate essential principle of our thought, emotion, and existence. If there is life after death, the soul should exist separately from the body. Even the mysteries of birth and death, the loss of conscious life during sleep, and even the most common operations of imagination and memory, abstract from physical existence even when people are awake, all these facts It means the existence of things of. .

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.