"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' …
by Plato, Plato, Long, Alex, Sedley, D. N.
fromCambridge texts in the history of philosophy
"Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. T…
Gail Fine presents a full-length study of Meno's paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's 'Meno'. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key q…
Gail Fine presents a full-length study of Meno's paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's 'Meno'. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key q…
Examines Meno's paradox, which challenges the possibility of inquiry, and compares replies from Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, in a consideration of the nature of knowledge and justification, the difference between knowledge and belief, varieties in…
"The articles collected in this volume are a selection of the papers delivered at the Seventh Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society held at Würzburg in Juli 2004 under the auspices of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Mainzer Akademie der Wisse…
