Dialogue

 1  Meno|        Dialogue is an attempt to answer the question, Can virtue
 2  Meno|          one would either ask or answer such a question in modern
 3  Meno|    virtue could be resolved.~The answer which is given by Plato
 4  Meno|  Heracleitus. It was the natural answer to two questions, ‘Whence
 5  Meno|          if you think that I can answer your question. For I literally
 6  Meno|       nature of the bee? and you answer that there are many kinds
 7  Meno|          or shape? How would you answer me?~MENO: I should answer
 8  Meno|        answer me?~MENO: I should answer that bees do not differ
 9  Meno|      alike;—would you be able to answer?~MENO: I should.~SOCRATES:
10  Meno|         and on this he who would answer the question, ‘What is virtue?’
11  Meno|         a figure;’ and you would answer ‘a figure.’~MENO: Certainly.~
12  Meno|          name of figure? Try and answer. Suppose that when a person
13  Meno|           but all? Could you not answer that question, Meno? I wish
14  Meno|      practice with a view to the answer about virtue.~MENO: I would
15  Meno|     would rather that you should answer, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Shall
16  Meno|          What do you say to this answer?—Figure is the only thing
17  Meno|    Socrates, it is such a simple answer.~SOCRATES: Why simple?~MENO:
18  Meno|      what figure is—what sort of answer would you have given him?~
19  Meno|          say to him: You have my answer, and if I am wrong, your
20  Meno|      poor old man to give you an answer, when you will not take
21  Meno|   therefore to humour you I must answer.~MENO: Please do.~SOCRATES:
22  Meno|   SOCRATES: Would you like me to answer you after the manner of
23  Meno|         to me to be an admirable answer.~SOCRATES: Why, yes, because
24  Meno|        Quite true.~SOCRATES: The answer, Meno, was in the orthodox
25  Meno| acceptable to you than the other answer about figure.~MENO: Yes.~
26  Meno|     which you were to frame your answer; and you have forgotten
27  Meno|          figure, we rejected any answer given in terms which were
28  Meno|  SOCRATES: Then begin again, and answer me, What, according to you
29  Meno|         and I do not know how to answer you; and though I have been