Dialogue

  1  Meno|     difficulty is the origin of knowledge:—~He has heard from priests
  2  Meno|       may be developed into all knowledge. The existence of this latent
  3  Meno|        existence of this latent knowledge is further proved by the
  4  Meno|         the uneducated man this knowledge? He had never learnt geometry
  5  Meno|        assume that if virtue is knowledge, then virtue can be taught. (
  6  Meno|       be under the direction of knowledge. Upon the assumption just
  7  Meno|     right opinion as well as of knowledge; and right opinion is for
  8  Meno|   practical purposes as good as knowledge, but is incapable of being
  9  Meno|         which is identical with knowledge, is an ideal only. If the
 10  Meno|       If the statesman had this knowledge, and could teach what he
 11  Meno|      satisfy enquiry. Virtue is knowledge, and therefore virtue can
 12  Meno|       there is no virtue and no knowledge. The teaching of the Sophists
 13  Meno|         doctrine that virtue is knowledge, Plato has been constantly
 14  Meno|     vanishes away. ‘If there is knowledge, there must be teachers;
 15  Meno|      the teachers?’ There is no knowledge in the higher sense of systematic,
 16  Meno| systematic, connected, reasoned knowledge, such as may one day be
 17  Meno|        Even if there be no true knowledge, as is proved by ‘the wretched
 18  Meno|        divination resting on no knowledge of causes, and incommunicable
 19  Meno|      are unable to impart their knowledge to their sons. Those who
 20  Meno|     basis of human life. To him knowledge, if only attainable in this
 21  Meno|         regarded as higher than knowledge. He would not have preferred
 22  Meno|        The philosopher only has knowledge, and yet the statesman and
 23  Meno|         the origin and unity of knowledge, and of the association
 24  Meno|       the association of ideas. Knowledge is prior to any particular
 25  Meno|         prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous
 26  Meno|     priestesses:’ (1) that true knowledge is a knowledge of causes (
 27  Meno|        that true knowledge is a knowledge of causes (compare Aristotle’
 28  Meno|        with an ardent desire of knowledge, and is equally willing
 29  Meno|  conclusion, that if ‘virtue is knowledge, it can be taught.’ In the
 30  Meno|       deeper, and the nature of knowledge is more distinctly explained.
 31  Meno|       to find that the ideal of knowledge is irreconcilable with experience.
 32  Meno|        indeed the profession of knowledge, but right opinion is our
 33  Meno|    sought to find the nature of knowledge in a prior and future state
 34  Meno|         not only of a theory of knowledge, but of a doctrine of rewards
 35  Meno|        Republic the relation of knowledge to virtue is described in
 36  Meno|       without the possession of knowledge in the higher or philosophical
 37  Meno|     Theaetetus as an account of knowledge, but is rejected on the
 38  Meno|      The problems of virtue and knowledge have been discussed in the
 39  Meno| distinction between opinion and knowledge is more fully developed
 40  Meno| caricature of a great theory of knowledge, which Plato in various
 41  Meno|         any solid foundation of knowledge be laid. It has degenerated
 42  Meno|         again emerged. No other knowledge has given an equal stimulus
 43  Meno|        enquiry from any part of knowledge we may be led on to infer
 44  Meno|        soul and a lower kind of knowledge. On the other hand, in the
 45  Meno|        attain, of the nature of knowledge. The ideas are now finally
 46  Meno|     without the sphere of human knowledge, or how the human and divine
 47  Meno|        the nature and origin of knowledge, will always continue to
 48  Meno|    Socrates said that virtue is knowledge, so Spinoza would have maintained
 49  Meno|      would have maintained that knowledge alone is good, and what
 50  Meno|         and what contributes to knowledge useful. Both are equally
 51  Meno|      man is supposed to receive knowledge by a new method and to work
 52  Meno|       filled. It is a symbol of knowledge rather than the reality
 53  Meno|      the certainty of objective knowledge is transferred to the subject;
 54  Meno|        age, all the branches of knowledge, whether relating to God
 55  Meno|         nature, will become the knowledge of ‘the revelation of a
 56  Meno|     Gorgias do really have this knowledge; although I have been just
 57  Meno|         in the world below, has knowledge of them all; and it is no
 58  Meno|         him he will recover his knowledge for himself, if he is only
 59  Meno|         spontaneous recovery of knowledge in him is recollection?~
 60  Meno|        True.~SOCRATES: And this knowledge which he now has must he
 61  Meno|        he always possessed this knowledge he would always have known;
 62  Meno|       or if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired
 63  Meno|       and every other branch of knowledge. Now, has any one ever taught
 64  Meno|    SOCRATES: And yet he has the knowledge?~MENO: The fact, Socrates,
 65  Meno|       if he did not acquire the knowledge in this life, then he must
 66  Meno|        need to be awakened into knowledge by putting questions to
 67  Meno|      have always possessed this knowledge, for he always either was
 68  Meno|        that virtue is or is not knowledge,—in that case will it be
 69  Meno|     does not every one see that knowledge alone is taught?~MENO: I
 70  Meno|     SOCRATES: Then if virtue is knowledge, virtue will be taught?~
 71  Meno|  question is, whether virtue is knowledge or of another species?~MENO:
 72  Meno|     good which is distinct from knowledge, virtue may be that good;
 73  Meno|        may be that good; but if knowledge embraces all good, then
 74  Meno|         thinking that virtue is knowledge?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And
 75  Meno|        such of these as are not knowledge, but of another sort, are
 76  Meno|      supposition that virtue is knowledge, there can be no doubt that
 77  Meno|        of heart to believe that knowledge is virtue?~SOCRATES: I will
 78  Meno|     assertion that if virtue is knowledge it may be taught; but I
 79  Meno|      doubting whether virtue is knowledge: for consider now and say
 80  Meno|      disciple in that branch of knowledge which he wishes him to acquire—
 81  Meno|      themselves, and bad at the knowledge of that which they are professing
 82  Meno|     other guidance than that of knowledge (episteme);—and indeed if
 83  Meno|       good guide unless he have knowledge (phrhonesis), this we were
 84  Meno|      guide to correct action as knowledge; and that was the point
 85  Meno|       virtue, when we said that knowledge only is the guide of right
 86  Meno|         is not less useful than knowledge?~MENO: The difference, Socrates,
 87  Meno|         is only that he who has knowledge will always be right; but
 88  Meno|         Socrates, I wonder that knowledge should be preferred to right
 89  Meno|         they have the nature of knowledge; and, in the second place,
 90  Meno|        abiding. And this is why knowledge is more honourable and excellent
 91  Meno|        conjecture. And yet that knowledge differs from true opinion
 92  Meno|         action quite as well as knowledge?~MENO: There again, Socrates,
 93  Meno|       is not a whit inferior to knowledge, or less useful in action;
 94  Meno|         inferior to him who has knowledge?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And
 95  Meno|      not only because they have knowledge, but because they have right
 96  Meno|       opinion, and that neither knowledge nor right opinion is given
 97  Meno|        If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it
 98  Meno|       the only right guides are knowledge and true opinion—these are
 99  Meno|        man are true opinion and knowledge.~MENO: I think so too.~SOCRATES:
100  Meno|       taught, neither is virtue knowledge.~MENO: Clearly not.~SOCRATES:
101  Meno|    useful things, one, which is knowledge, has been set aside, and
102  Meno|      virtue was not grounded on knowledge.~MENO: That is probably
103  Meno|         SOCRATES: But if not by knowledge, the only alternative which