The Socratic Dialogue of Meno

Two Guys Searching For Truth On The Road That Never Ends...

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries - Rene Descartes

This episode is a continuation of our discussion of Socrates and centers around the Socratic dialogue of Meno. The question posed by Meno is whether virtue is taught, acquired by practice, or whether it comes by nature, and Socrates uses a mathematic puzzle to answer the question. We discuss the dialogue, its broader context, its relevance, and how it ties into the episodes and topics previously mentioned on the podcast. It also provides an answer to Meno's Paradox, or the Learner's Paradox and introduces the Theory of Knowledge as Recollection. We also briefly speak to the limitations of this answer provided by Socrates, and the greater debate between Rationalists and Empiricists that we will be discussing soon in upcoming episodes as we move back into the Renaissance Philosophers.

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