Dialogue

 1  Meno|        state of life, all of which may be easily described.’~Socrates
 2  Meno|           of colour.’ But some one may object that he does not
 3  Meno|           has a seed or germ which may be developed into all knowledge.
 4  Meno|           the suggestion that Meno may do the Athenian people a
 5  Meno|          right opinion. For virtue may be under the guidance of
 6  Meno|        reasoned knowledge, such as may one day be attained, and
 7  Meno|         state of education,’ there may be right opinion, which
 8  Meno|         inspired and divine.~There may be some trace of irony in
 9  Meno|           given in words. A person may have some skill or latent
10  Meno|           poet are inspired. There may be a sort of irony in regarding
11  Meno|   confident.’ (Compare Phaedo.) It may be observed, however, that
12  Meno|          of one thing all the rest may be recovered. The subjective
13  Meno|            principles of education may also be gathered from the ‘
14  Meno|      lesser points of the dialogue may be noted, such as (1) the
15  Meno|           shrewd reflection, which may admit of an application
16  Meno|            and of the Sophists. He may be regarded as standing
17  Meno|       parting words. Perhaps Plato may have been desirous of showing
18  Meno|     tendency in men’s minds. Or he may have been regardless of
19  Meno|          in which the true teacher may draw out the mind of youth;
20  Meno|         view of the Platonic ideas may be summed up in some such
21  Meno|            idea of good (Republic) may without violence be converted
22  Meno|         Phaedo, Republic; to which may be added the criticism of
23  Meno|           any part of knowledge we may be led on to infer the whole.
24  Meno|         him (Sophist). Nor in what may be termed Plato’s abridgement
25  Meno|           received notion, that we may hold fast one or two. The
26  Meno|            elements of mathematics may be found in him. A certain
27  Meno|         the comprehension,’ and we may put the same thought in
28  Meno|         inseparable identity. They may be regarded as the two aspects
29  Meno|            time and all existence, may be paralleled with another
30  Meno| observation and experience. But we may remark that it is the idea
31  Meno|         facts. And here, again, we may find a parallel with the
32  Meno|          there can be no other. We may trace them in language,
33  Meno|            a priori about them. We may attempt to shake them off,
34  Meno|          and any Hellene who likes may ask him anything. How different
35  Meno|         that, my dear boy, but you may say further that I have
36  Meno|           wish to know about that, may also be easily described:
37  Meno|           that we do. And the same may be said of vice, Socrates (
38  Meno|            many and different they may be, they have all a common
39  Meno|    discovered, I suspect, that you may explain in the same way
40  Meno|          view; for very likely you may be right:—You affirm virtue
41  Meno|            words the want of them, may be equally virtue?~MENO:
42  Meno|          at my wits’ end. And if I may venture to make a jest upon
43  Meno|            about them—as well they may—but I shall not return the
44  Meno|        numerous attendants, that I may demonstrate on him.~MENO:
45  Meno|            Yes.~SOCRATES: A square may be of any size?~BOY: Certainly.~
46  Meno|          Then he who does not know may still have true notions
47  Meno|            taught geometry; for he may be made to do the same with
48  Meno|           offer a hypothesis which may assist us in forming a conclusion:
49  Meno|    distinct from knowledge, virtue may be that good; but if knowledge
50  Meno|     SOCRATES: And yet these things may also sometimes do us harm:
51  Meno|             SOCRATES: And the same may be said of temperance and
52  Meno|          if virtue is knowledge it may be taught; but I fear that
53  Meno|          SOCRATES: And conversely, may not the art of which neither
54  Meno|      should he go in order that he may learn this virtue? Does
55  Meno|            be taught. And that you may not suppose the incompetent
56  Meno|        Anytus is in a rage. And he may well be in a rage, for he
57  Meno|           anything but agreed; you may hear them saying at one
58  Meno|        good one.’~And this, as you may remark, is a contradiction
59  Meno|           I believe.~SOCRATES: And may we not, Meno, truly call
60  Meno|            and statesmen above all may be said to be divine and
61  Meno|           likely our friend Anytus may take offence at the word.~
62  Meno|            by reason, unless there may be supposed to be among
63  Meno|           there be such an one, he may be said to be among the