Virtue in the cave
moral inquiry in Plato's Meno
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Publication
2001 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivevirtuecavemorali00weis_090
- Internet Archivevirtueincavemora0000weis
- Internet Archivevirtuecavemorali00weis
- ISBN-100195140761
- ISBN-139780195140767
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- Goodreads570860
- Library of Congress Control Number00061155
- OCLC Control Number44750700
- Better World Books9780195140767
- Open LibraryOL6793735M
Classifications
- DDC170
- LCCB377 .W45 2001
- LCCB377.W45 2001
Description
"The central question of Plato's Meno is "What is virtue?" However, its epistemological and metaphysical concerns - as evidenced by "Meno's paradox" (which asks how inquiry is possible if knowledge is not present at the outset) and by "recollection" (which constitutes Socrates' answer to it) - suggest to scholars that the Meno marks the transition from Plato's early "Socratic" period to his middle, more "Platonic" one. Moreover, the Meno's quasi-mystical notions of immortality of the soul and metempsychosis, as well as its heightened attention to mathematics and its development of an ostensibly new "method of hypothesis," lend further support to this widespread view." "In this original interpretation of the Meno, Roslyn Weiss takes and defends the position that what it offers is a self-conscious analysis and assessment of the worth, and of the limitations, not of inquiry itself, but of moral inquiry."--BOOK JACKET.
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