Plato’s Meno (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)


Plato’s Meno (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)

by: Dominic Scott (Editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (16 Feb. 2006)

Language: English

Print length: 252 pages

ISBN-10: 0521640334

ISBN-13: 9780521640336

Book Description

Given its brevity, Plato’s Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics:politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue’s many enigmas and attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid and sympathetic to Plato’s philosophy. Reading the dialogue as a whole, it explains how different arguments are related to one another and how the interplay between characters is connected to the philosophical content of the work. In a new departure, this book’s exploration focuses primarily on the content and coherence of the dialogue in its own right and not merely in the context of other dialogues, making it required reading for all students of Plato, be they from the world of classics or philosophy.

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