Representing a new interpretation of Plato's 'Meno', this text takes and defends the position that Plato's work is a self-conscious analysis and assessment of the worth not of inquiry itself, but more specifically of moral inquiry.
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"The central question of Plato's Meno is "What is virtue?" However, its epistemological and metaphysical concerns - as evidenced by "Meno's paradox" (which asks how inquiry is possible if knowledge is not present at the outset) and by "recollection" (which constitutes Socrates' …
"Roslyn Weiss offers a new interpretation of Platonic moral philosophy based on an unconventional reading of the Republic. Her basic argument begins with the point that Plato means for us to react badly to the philosopher-rulers of Book 7. She then makes the case that there are …
In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of mo…
In Plato's 'Republic', Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. Weiss argues that the 'Republic' contains two distinct and irreconcilabl…
In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of mo…