PHILOS 2P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Socratic Dialogue, Dialectic, Canon Eos 80D
21 Apr 2020
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This dialogue is often considered a transitional dialogue (i. e. transitional between early : get aspects of euthyphro, method is self-aware, look at euthyphro and meno pretty close. The dialogue takes place between socrates and meno. Meno seems to like the work of the sophist gorgias: becomes a mouth piece for gorgias. The introduction seems to contain an ironic diss of the sophists. Socrates claims athens is devoid of wisdom: a way of suckering meno into talking to him. Socrates places opposes dialectic to the rhetoric of the sophists: socrates uses his dialectic method for the first time. Socrates reply to the first definition: socrates happy got 3 definitions. What you have given me are a swarm of virtues. Will virtue differ, as regards being virtue? (73a) Meno: virtue is to be able to rule people (73c: it"s a lazy answer. Socrates: virtue, you say, is ability to rule".
