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Meno

Plato
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Plato

Meno

Plato
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

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Essay Topics

1.

What is Meno’s Paradox? How does Socrates solve it?

2.

Meno declares that “justice is virtue.” Why does Socrates disagree, and what analogies does he offer to prove his point?

3.

For opinion to be as valid as truth, it must be chained. To what? And why?

4.

Who are the Sophists? How do they differ from Socrates?

5.

Socrates asks Meno to bring forward an enslaved man. What is Socrates’s purpose in doing so, and how does he accomplish it?

6.

Socrates irritates Anytus more than once. Describe two of these incidents and explain why Anytus is upset by each.

7.

Describe the Meno Problem and how Socrates answers it.

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EXTRA CREDIT: Why does Socrates believe that virtue can’t be taught? How can leaders be virtuous if they can’t learn virtue?

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