Dialogue

 1  Meno|         there is the virtue of a man, of a woman, of an old man,
 2  Meno|       man, of a woman, of an old man, and of a child; there is
 3  Meno|        whence had the uneducated man this knowledge? He had never
 4  Meno|         had it when he was not a man. And as he always either
 5  Meno|          either was or was not a man, he must have always had
 6  Meno|       have preferred the poet or man of action to the philosopher,
 7  Meno|          in the higher nature of man. The philosopher only has
 8  Meno|         of teaching, for that no man could get a living by shoemaking
 9  Meno|        type of the narrow-minded man of the world, who is indignant
10  Meno|          than human. The soul of man is likened to a charioteer
11  Meno|    communicated to the reason of man his own attributes of thought
12  Meno|         in the material frame of man. It is characteristic of
13  Meno|          alone are cognizable by man, thought and extension;
14  Meno|         substance is unfolded to man. Here a step is made beyond
15  Meno|        herein lies the secret of man’s well-being. In the exaltation
16  Meno| development in which the mind of man is supposed to receive knowledge
17  Meno|       whether relating to God or man or nature, will become the
18  Meno|         then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other
19  Meno|       take first the virtue of a man—he should know how to administer
20  Meno|         there is one virtue of a man, another of a woman, another
21  Meno|      always the same, whether in man or woman?~MENO: I should
22  Meno|      health is the same, both in man and woman.~SOCRATES: And
23  Meno|        her which there is in the man. I mean to say that strength,
24  Meno|          as strength, whether of man or woman, is the same. Is
25  Meno|       person, in a woman or in a man?~MENO: I cannot help feeling,
26  Meno|      saying that the virtue of a man was to order a state, and
27  Meno|           And can either a young man or an elder one be good,
28  Meno|       colour, you were to reply, Man, I do not understand what
29  Meno|         thus plaguing a poor old man to give you an answer, when
30  Meno|       you, Socrates.~SOCRATES: A man who was blindfolded has
31  Meno|     really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be evils
32  Meno|        is common to all, and one man is no better than another
33  Meno|       True.~SOCRATES: And if one man is not better than another
34  Meno|    introducing. You argue that a man cannot enquire either about
35  Meno|        they say that the soul of man is immortal, and at one
36  Meno|         And the moral is, that a man ought to live always in
37  Meno|  recollection all the rest, if a man is strenuous and does not
38  Meno|       the time when he was not a man?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
39  Meno|        when he was and was not a man, which only need to be awakened
40  Meno|          either was or was not a man?~MENO: Obviously.~SOCRATES:
41  Meno|          as we are agreed that a man should enquire about that
42  Meno|       sort of confidence? When a man has no sense he is harmed
43  Meno|         well-conditioned, modest man, not insolent, or overbearing,
44  Meno|          the other arts? Would a man who wanted to make another
45  Meno|         and strangers, as a good man should. Now, to whom should
46  Meno|           for I know of a single man, Protagoras, who made more
47  Meno|  communicated or imparted by one man to another? That is the
48  Meno|          Themistocles was a good man?~ANYTUS: Certainly; no man
49  Meno|       man?~ANYTUS: Certainly; no man better.~SOCRATES: And must
50  Meno|      been a good teacher, if any man ever was a good teacher,
51  Meno|          make his own son a good man and a gentleman; he could
52  Meno| Themistocles, was a wise or good man, as his father was?~ANYTUS:
53  Meno|   acknowledge that he was a good man?~ANYTUS: To be sure I should.~
54  Meno|         reply that he was a mean man, and had not many friends
55  Meno|         of a great family, and a man of influence at Athens and
56  Meno|        be created and put into a man, then they’ (who were able
57  Meno|         will you ever make a bad man into a good one.’~And this,
58  Meno|       good action is possible to man under other guidance than
59  Meno|          But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless
60  Meno|   SOCRATES: I will explain. If a man knew the way to Larisa,
61  Meno|     useful in action; nor is the man who has right opinion inferior
62  Meno|    SOCRATES: And surely the good man has been acknowledged by
63  Meno|        right opinion is given to man by nature or acquired by
64  Meno|          these are the guides of man; for things which happen
65  Meno|        not under the guidance of man: but the guides of man are
66  Meno|        of man: but the guides of man are true opinion and knowledge.~
67  Meno|          when they praise a good man, say ‘that he is a divine
68  Meno|         say ‘that he is a divine man.’~MENO: And I think, Socrates,