Dialogue

 1  Meno| Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether
 2  Meno|       of teaching, the original question of the teachableness of
 3  Meno|         is willing to argue the question, as mathematicians say,
 4  Meno|        the consideration of the question ‘whether virtue is teachable,’
 5  Meno|        an attempt to answer the question, Can virtue be taught? No
 6  Meno|     either ask or answer such a question in modern times. But in
 7  Meno|         further effort that the question of the teachableness of
 8  Meno|   predicate can be applied.~The question which Plato has raised respecting
 9  Meno|    think that I can answer your question. For I literally do not
10  Meno|     Socrates, in answering your question. Let us take first the virtue
11  Meno|         he who would answer the question, ‘What is virtue?’ would
12  Meno|         as yet take hold of the question as I could wish.~SOCRATES:
13  Meno|     that some one asked you the question which I asked before: Meno,
14  Meno|         a person asked you this question either about figure or colour,
15  Meno|       And then he might put the question in another form: Meno, he
16  Meno|       Could you not answer that question, Meno? I wish that you would
17  Meno|       again and repeat the same question: What is virtue? for otherwise,
18  Meno|          Ought I not to ask the question over again; for can any
19  Meno|       to ask over again the old question, What is virtue? Am I not
20  Meno|     intention. I only asked the question from habit; but if you can
21  Meno|    rather return to my original question, Whether in seeking to acquire
22  Meno|         a little, and allow the question ‘Whether virtue is given
23  Meno|        made a quick end of this question: if virtue is of such a
24  Meno|   Certainly.~SOCRATES: The next question is, whether virtue is knowledge
25  Meno|          that appears to be the question which comes next in order.~
26  Meno|    friend Meno in answering our question, Who are the teachers? Consider
27  Meno|       trouble you with one more question. When we say that we should
28  Meno|         city of Athens. But the question is whether they were also
29  Meno|    virtue can be taught, is the question which we have been discussing.
30  Meno|         to another? That is the question which I and Meno have been
31  Meno|        have they to do with the question?~SOCRATES: Because they
32  Meno|         excluded, then came the question whether virtue is acquired