Virtue in the Cave

One of very few monographs devoted to Plato's <I>Meno</I> this study emphasizes the interplay between its protagonists Socrates and Meno. It interprets the <I>Meno</I> as Socrates' attempt to persuade his interlocutor by every device at his disposal of the value of moral inquiry-even though it fails to yield full-blown knowledge-and to encourage him to engage in such inquiry insofar as it alone makes human life worth living.