Meno

Platos Meno (/mino/; Greek: v Menn) is a Socratic dialogue. In it Socrates seeks to define virtue or arete which refers to virtue generally rather than specific virtues like justice or temperance. Meno is portrayed in the first section of the text as being reduced to bewilderment or aporia in a Socratic dialectical style of writing. However in response to Menos paradox (also known as the learners paradox) Socrates offers up some encouraging ideas including the immortality of the soul the theory of knowledge as a recollection (anamnesis) which he illustrates by giving one of Menos slaves a mathematical problem to solve the method of hypothesis and in the concluding lines the distinction between knowledge and true belief.