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Menos Argument
Title: Menos Argument
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 871 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Menos Argument
Question 1) Explain Meno’s argument and explain Socrates response. Is his reply successful? Why or Why not?
So Socrates give a few counter-arguments to Meno about why we should inquire into things that we do not know. First he tells a myth about the soul and its immortality and how it has learned everything and recollect is all we need to do to obtain that knowledge. Second, since Meno doesn't quite understand the theory of …showed first 75 words of 871 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 871 total…knowledge that we don't have, and this is possible through the true notions that we have. Socrates showed Meno that even though his argument against inquiry into that which we do not yet know is valid, inquiry is still possible and very valuable. I hope that Socrates' arguments and theory convince us that inquiry is valuable and important to our lives, and that we start practicing it as he did, with Meno in this instance.
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