Meno

MENO by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A knuckle down of Meno (Boy), Anytus. MENO: Can you report me, Socrates, whether sexual abstention is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if uncomplete by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other(a)(a) way? SOCRATES: O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were noted among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their sit; but 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 savor with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a swaggering and bold style, which becomes those who hol d out, and is the style in which he himself answers alone comers; and both Hellene who likes may lease him anything. How different is our lot! my passion Meno. here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you.

I am authoritative that if you were to ask any Athenian whether virtue was natural or acquired, he would laughter in your face, and say: Stranger, you have further too peachy an opinion of me, if you think that I seat answer your question. For I literally do not agnise what virtue is, and oft less whether it is acquired by teaching or not. And I mys elf, Meno, living as I do in this region of ! poverty, am as poor as the lodge in of the world; and I grant 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 tell if he was fair, or the opposite of fair; rich and noble, or the bring down of rich and noble? Do you think that I could? MENO: No, indeed. plainly are you in earnest, Socrates, in...If you want to get a salutary essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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