Dialogue

 1  Meno|      had the ‘torpedo’s shock’ given him, and is the better for
 2  Meno|    Phaedo.)~After Socrates has given this specimen of the true
 3  Meno|  resolved.~The answer which is given by Plato is paradoxical
 4  Meno|       grounds cannot always be given in words. A person may have
 5  Meno| conception of false opinion is given up as hopeless. The doctrines
 6  Meno|     repulsive picture which is given of him in the Anabasis of
 7  Meno|         No other knowledge has given an equal stimulus to the
 8  Meno|        forms of them which are given by experience. But in the
 9  Meno|       description which he has given of the soul and her mansions
10  Meno|       of answer would you have given him?~SOCRATES: I should
11  Meno|       number of pieces: I have given you the pattern.~MENO: Well
12  Meno|         we rejected any answer given in terms which were as yet
13  Meno|      the double line, boy, has given a space, not twice, but
14  Meno|       have made him doubt, and given him the ‘torpedo’s shock,’
15  Meno|     Were not all these answers given out of his own head?~MENO:
16  Meno|     enquired whether virtue is given by instruction or not, until
17  Meno|    question ‘Whether virtue is given by instruction, or in any
18  Meno|       when you have produced a given side of it (Or, when you
19  Meno|       when you apply it to the given line, i.e. the diameter
20  Meno|      the circle (autou).), the given area of the triangle falls
21  Meno| knowledge nor right opinion is given to man by nature or acquired
22  Meno|   imagine either of them to be given by nature?~MENO: Not I.)~
23  Meno| SOCRATES: Then if they are not given by nature, neither are the
24  Meno|      acquired, but an instinct given by God to the virtuous.
25  Meno|    before asking how virtue is given, we enquire into the actual