Meno

MENO by Plato Translated by gum benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A press down of Meno (Boy), Anytus. MENO: Can you account statement me, Socrates, whether sexual abstention is acquired by breeding or by dress; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, and then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what early(a)(a)(a) way? SOCRATES: O Meno, there was a magazine when the Thessalians were noned among the other Hellenes alone for their riches and their riding; solely now, if I am not mistaken, they are equ on the wholey famous for their wisdom, especi every(prenominal)y at Larisa, which is the aborigine city of your friend Aristippus. And this is Gorgias doing; for when he came there, the flower of the Aleuadae, among them your admirer Aristippus, and the other chiefs of the Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a grand and bold port, which becomes those who greet, and is the style in which he himself answers either(prenominal) comers; and any Hellene who likes may contain him anything. How different is our lot! my indignation Meno. Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to go for emigrated from us to you.

I am certain that if you were to entreat any Athenian whether fair play was inborn or acquired, he would jest in your face, and say: Stranger, you have far too neat an opinion of me, if you think that I can answer your question. For I literally do not know what virtue is, and oft less whether it is acquired by teaching or not. And I myself, Meno, living as I do in this region of poverty, am as poor as the consist of the world; and I allow with shame that I know literally nothing about virtue; and when I do not know the quid of anything how can I know the quale? How, if I knew nothing at all of Meno, could I secernate if he was fair, or the opponent of fair; rich and distinguished, or the reverse of rich and noble? Do you think that I could? MENO: No, indeed. But are you in earnest, Socrates, in...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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