Plato’s Meno

Part of The Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato.

Given its brevity, Plato’s Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, immortality & the nature & acquisition of knowledge. Its treatment of these, tho profound, is tantalizingly short, leaving the reader with many unresolved questions. This book confronts the dialogue’s many enigmas & attempts to solve them in a way that is both lucid & sympathetic to Plato’s philosophy. Reading the dialogue as a whole, it explains how different arguments are related to one another, & how the interplay between characters is connected to the philosophical content of the work. In a new departure, this book’s exploration focuses primarily on the content & coherence of the dialogue in its own right, not merely in the context of Plato’s other works, making it required reading for all students of Plato, whether they are from the world of classics or philosophy.