Dialogue

 1  Meno|         Pericles, and other great men, had sons to whom they would
 2  Meno|           it cannot be said to be men of science or philosophers,
 3  Meno|      Phaedo and Republic. Because men had abstract ideas in a
 4  Meno|           always have been either men or not men. The fallacy
 5  Meno|       have been either men or not men. The fallacy of the latter
 6  Meno|           rather to a tendency in men’s minds. Or he may have
 7  Meno|  acknowledged to have been clever men and good speakers, are denounced
 8  Meno|            These were revealed to men in a former state of existence,
 9  Meno|      state of existence, in which men did and suffered good and
10  Meno|        bear witness. The souls of men returning to earth bring
11  Meno|           the individual, and all men come into the world, if
12  Meno|        dwell. There the Gods, and men following in their train,
13  Meno|           of due time; and before men were capable of understanding
14  Meno|          effect. He would deprive men of a familiar term which
15  Meno|    Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then both men and women, if they are to
16  Meno|            if they are to be good men and women, must have the
17  Meno|           Yes.~SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way,
18  Meno|       desire the good? Do not all men, my dear sir, desire good?~
19  Meno|           heard from certain wise men and women who spoke of things
20  Meno|     become noble kings and mighty men and great in wisdom and
21  Meno| difficulty in her eliciting or as men say learning, out of a single
22  Meno|           nature, or as coming to men in some other way?~SOCRATES:
23  Meno|       have known our future great men; and on their showing we
24  Meno|         And these are the sort of men from whom you are likely
25  Meno|        wisdom and virtue by which men order the state or the house,
26  Meno|          that they know how to do men good, do you mean to say
27  Meno|          by many to be the wisest men of Hellas have been out
28  Meno|           No, Socrates; the young men who gave their money to
29  Meno|        youth to the care of these men were still more out of their
30  Meno|        that I know what manner of men these are, whether I am
31  Meno|          there not been many good men in this city?~SOCRATES:
32  Meno|           are, or have been, good men in this part of the world,
33  Meno|         mean to say that the good men of our own and of other
34  Meno|        admit to be among the best men of the past. Let us take
35  Meno|           he no wish to make good men of them? Nay, he must have
36  Meno|       have taught them to be good men, which would have cost him
37  Meno|          who would have made good men of his sons, if he could
38  Meno|        too ready to speak evil of men: and, if you will take my
39  Meno|      which it is not easier to do men harm than to do them good,
40  Meno|          them; but he thinks that men should be taught to speak.~
41  Meno|            that there are no good men: And if there are, how did
42  Meno|         how there can be any good men at all.~MENO: How do you
43  Meno|        SOCRATES: I mean that good men are necessarily useful or
44  Meno|        SOCRATES: Seeing then that men become good and useful to
45  Meno|            Meno, truly call those men ‘divine’ who, having no
46  Meno|        women too, Meno, call good men divine—do they not? and