Plato's Meno
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Materiales de estudio para revisar y aprender con Paideia de Werner W. Jaeger 11 La Sócrates y la ruta hacia el centro divino. Figura, problema y herencia de Sócrates. 1 Al llegar a la tercera parte de la obra Jaeger nos introduce en la... more
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Sample of my translations of Plato's Protagoras and Meno; this short sample includes Protagoras' story of human origins and the geometrical experiment with Meno's slave, and some of the notes. (This is not a new publication; just new to... more
In the Protagoras, Socrates responds to Protagoras' claim that he teaches young men the art of citizenship by saying the following; "The truth is, Protagoras, I have never thought that this could be taught…" (319b). In this paper I... more
The 4th edition of our textbook. It contains 3 Plato dialogues, general introductory commentary on Plato and specific, lengthy commentary on each dialogue. The 3rd edition was published by Pearson. This 4th edition is self-published using... more
Resumen: El Principio de Prioridad de la DeÀ nición es, para cualquier lector de los Diálogos Socráticos, un tópico recurrente en las disputas de Sócrates. En su inicio, este ensayo expone el problema que aparece si se asume este... more
This work articulates two thesis: one Socratic and one Platonic; and displays how the first one is heir of the second. The Socratic one is called the principle of priority of definition; the Platonic one is the Recollection theory. The... more
In this paper, I will outline and analyse the famous demonstration with the slave boy in Plato's Meno dialogue. It is essential that Socrates be shown not to have told the slave boy the answer - the conclusion at 85b - and I will show... more
Many attempts have been made in order to analyze and/or unriddle the so-called "Meno's 'Paradox'". Among those who were more interested in the general framework of the dialogue but not particularly and solely in the "paradox" itself,... more
The Meno contains a host of puzzles and problems, not the least of which is the status of the theory of recollection in the dialogue. This essay aims to present both the theory of recollection and what has been called "Meno's Paradox" not... more
In this paper I argue, controversially, that Plato's Meno anticipates Wittgenstein's critique of essentialism. Plato is usually read as an essentialist of the very kind that Wittgenstein was challenging, and the Meno in particular is... more
Full download: http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=D61576186C31CC0FAC7AFBC1E44ABB42 Índice Introducción............................................................................... 9 Capítulo 1. La relevancia del caso... more
In this essay, I muse upon aporia’s value as a pedagogical technique in the philosophy classroom using as a guide examples of aporia that are found in Plato’s Socratic dialogues. The word aporia, translated as “without passage” or... more
The second volume--fourth in Order of Composition--of Plato the Teacher, a reconstruction of the Reading Order of Plato's dialogues. This volume covers Lysis, Euthydemus, Laches, Charmides, Gorgias (subject of the excerpt uploaded here),... more
This course explores the major philosophical and historical paradigms in education in Western culture, including idealism, realism, process philosophy, pragmatism, and Marxism. We will read major texts by authors such as Plato, Kant,... more
Comments welcomed--this is not yet a final version. Updated 151014.
Re-uploaded 01/07/15 with a couple of small corrections.
Re-uploaded 01/07/15 with a couple of small corrections.
Revue des études grecques 2019 EN ROUGE DES POINTS À SURVEILLER LORS DE LA RELECTURE DES ÉPREUVES SCAFOGLIO (Giampiero), Ajax. Un héros qui vient de loin, Amsterdam, Adolf M. Hakkert (« Classical and Byzantine Monographs » ; 90), 2017.... more
Not only was it a reference to Ismenias the Theban (Men. 90a4-5) that allowed nineteenth-century scholars to establish a date of composition for Plato’s Meno on the basis of Xenophon’s Hellenica but beginning with “Meno the Thessalian”... more
Meno's question does not relate to a circumstantial setting in which a sincere concern may emerge. Rather, it is asked in the abstract. In contrast to the practical engagement with which the friendly Hippocrates approaches Socrates in the... more
There is an important turning point in the history of epistemology. Before Plato, there were some thinkers who are generally known as Pre-Socratics. Their major concern was to ‘know’ the nature. However, the object of knowledge shifted... more
In this brief paper, I discuss Plato's theory of recollection as it appears in the Meno dialogue. I argue that based on the text of the dialogue, Plato has the character of Socrates present the theory of recollection not because he... more
Plato’s dialogue Meno presents a deceptively simple surface. Plato begins by having the character Meno ask Socrates how virtue is acquired. Instead of having Socrates respond directly, Plato has him divert the conversation to the... more
Prompt #2: In Phaedo and Republic, Plato presents Socrates explicitly distinguishing between the intelligible and the sensible. In other dialogues, however, this distinction is often less obvious. Discuss how Socrates' refutations in... more
In order to prove that Eros is not beautiful, Socrates argues in the Symposium that all desires must be directed at things that we do not have. The argument fails: it does not show that we cannot desire what we already have. However,... more
Regarding the relationship between the Platonic concept of knowledge (epistēmē) and the concept of belief (doxa), interpreters have proposed basically three different readings, which could be described as inclusivism, exclusivism and... more
As is well known, the Platonic doctrine of anámnēsis aims to provide a solution to a difficult epistemological problem: how can one learn what he still ignores? for, if he utterly ignores it, he cannot even purpose to learn it. The answer... more
Though many have called Don Quixote mad, even the author of Don Quixote himself sometimes, there is something undeniably striking in his mode of being in the world. In the final chapters of the book, Don Quixote recants his entire life's... more
Along with fresh interpretations of Plato, this book proposes a radically new approach to reading him, one that can teach us about protreptic, as it is called, by reimagining the ways in which Socrates engages in it. Protreptic, as it is... more
Зачастую в качестве основного (и исключительного) познавательного метода в «Меноне» признается анамнесис. Но полумистический анамнесис, ориентированный на априорное знание, не может выступать в качестве познавательной процедуры в силу... more
Résumé (English version below) La nouvelle lecture que je propose du Ménon part d’un double constat, l’un bien connu, l’autre moins : non seulement le nom du protagoniste Μένων correspond exactement à la forme de participe présent du... more
This is a teaching tool. It's a condensation of the argument of Plato's Meno, based upon my own translation. It's work in progress, so comments welcome.
I argue against Greco's account of the value of knowledge, according to which knowledge is distinctively valuable vis-à-vis that which falls short of knowledge in virtue of its status as an achievement and achievements being finally... more
Is it true that all formative influence is unethical, and that we ought to avoid influencing children (and indeed anyone at all)? There are more or less defensible versions of this doctrine, and we shall follow some of the strands of... more
The paper revisits the learning paradox first posited by Socrates in his famous dialogue with Meno. The paradox of new knowledge has been steadily attracting attention of educational researchers (see, e.g., Bereiter 1985; Petrie 1991;... more
The main subject of this article is Gilles Deleuze´s critique of Plato´s theory of recollection (anámnesis). It´s aim is to show that his critique directs against Plato the very same argument that Socrates uses against Meno to introduce... more
ricerchiamo come definizione con ciò che noi apprezziamo in ciò che andiamo definendo. Per illustrare al meglio ciò che vogliamo chiarire, possiamo fare riferimento a tre episodi contenuti in tre diversi dialoghi platonici: il primo, con... more
This commentary examines Diego Garrocho’s paper, “Mythological Sources of Memory and Oblivion.” I argue that Garrocho’s thesis hinges on the assumption of two historical continuities between myth and philosophy. First, it supposes a... more
Au seuil du Ménon, un double constat s’impose : le nom du protagoniste Μένων correspond au participe présent du verbe μένειν « tenir bon, résister » ; chaque adresse que Socrate fait à Ménon génère un phénomène de clusters phoniques :... more