Plato's Meno once again incorporates his favorite character Socrates into another debate with a new person, Meno. ... The same is true with the boy in Meno, he is not able to completely grasp these concepts of geometry because he is just imitating the Forms from knowledge in a previous life. Here in lies a paradox, the Forms are thought of as themselves being the answers to the questions, such as "what is X", or, in Meno, what is the value of X line that gives us an eight-foot figure with in a square. ... In closing, Plato's point of recollection is not all in vain for it proves a mu...

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Meno by Plato "Learning As Recollection" In Meno by Plato, Socrates and Meno are involved in somewhat of a heated argument about virtue. ... A good example of this is the part of Meno when Socrates questions a slave boy about a geometry problem. ...

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Plato, John D. ... In Plato's "The Meno" (1956), he proposes that learning is a process of recollecting knowledge brought about by prior experiences or questioning. ... Plato's "The Meno," emphasizes the idea of learning as a process of recollecting knowledge through questioning and discovery. "The Meno" is a dialogue between Socrates and a character named Meno, who discuss whether virtue can be taught. Socrates attempts to define virtue by questioning Meno, a person who claims to know the term's meaning. ...

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The theory of recollection is told through Plato in the Phaedo and the Meno. ... "In his dialogue entitled the Meno, Plato illustrates how Socrates is able to show that even a young uneducated slave boy knows some truths of geometry not because somebody taught him that subject but because be naturally knows the relationship of various ideas to each other." ... In the Meno, Socrates states that the boy is "recovering by oneself knowledge within oneself." (Plato 85D) Knowledge in the Meno is perceived as having an acquaintance with the object, but not knowing how it functions. ... (C...

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Just like Plato's Meno and Socrate's allegory of the cave, Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" was a story about moral and educational failure. ... Like Meno, of Meno, Clerici would fail, a victim of his own desire to learn only "correct opinions" to guide his actions and unwillingness to exercise his "prudence," practical reason to help him understand the "correct opinions" more dynamically. ... Such mirrored the failure of Meno, in Plato's Meno, whose downfall was also in part due to his desire to learn only "correct opinion...

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This might explain Plato's why as a young man, Plato's interest were in political leadership. ... Afraid for his life; Plato left Athens and began to travel. ... It wasn't until about 385 B.C that Plato returned to Athens. ... These works include Gorgias (a consideration of several ethnical questions) and Meno (a discussion of knowledge). ... Plato died in about 347 B.C at the age of 80 years old. ...

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With the dialogues of the Meno and Phaedo, Plato discusses the ideas of recollection and immortality of the soul in general. In the dialogue of Meno, Socrates explains the idea of recollection within the question and answer period between himself and the boy. Meno asks Socrates, "What do you mean by saying that we do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection." ... I believe that through the three dialogues of Plato, his theory has been proven. ... Looking at the Meno, Plato discusses how the knowledge we have is innate and takes recollection to recover said ...

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The theory of the forms is hinted at in previous books like the Meno but it isn't until the Phaedo before it is really introduced. ... Understanding the forms is what is most important for Plato. ... The idea of forms is vital to Plato's idea of immortal soul. ... The forms play a major role in Plato's basic ethical doctrine. ... I generally have to agree with Plato. ...

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I Remember It All Plato's doctrine of recollection states that rather than "learning" in the common sense, what is in reality occurring when people think, and eventually find an answer or solution to a problem, is that they are "recollecting" concepts they already knew. It is, in Plato's view, recovery from amnesia developed through the process of recycling of "souls." Plato's Meno is logically inconsistent. If knowledge is "justified true belief," as Plato defines it, then the acquisition of knowledge is the subjective formation and justification of belief rather than the...

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Over 2000 years into the future, the pensive world still contemplates this inevitable truth. During those 2000 years, Plato's Meno has been scrutinized repeatedly, yet Socrates" ideas still stands strong. In that fateful evening, 2000 in the past, the mouths of Socrates and Menon gave birth to man...

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Some accredit Plato with the invention of philosophy, while A. ... This contrasts with Plato's initial postulation of a Demiurge. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... "6 This has become known as 'Meno's Paradox'. Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ...

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Another example of Socratic ignorance is presented in The Meno, which takes place just after Socrates has won a similar argument on the nature of the virtues with a well known wise man in Athens at the time, Meno. Meno, who is known to be quite an intellectual and a good rhetorician, compares him to a stingray, by saying that having a debate with Socrates leaves his mind and mouth numb, much as his body would had it been stung by a stingray. ... Socrates says this to show Meno that he does not seek, like the Sophists, to win arguments by running logical rings around whomever he is talking to. ...

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The theory of knowledge that Plato claims to demonstrate in the slave boy scene of The Meno is that we do not learn, but rather that learning is just a process of recollection, of remembering what we have forgotten. ... (Plato, p.55). ... Plato's view in comparison with Armstrong is a tiny bit similar. ... Kant's theory of knowledge is somewhat different from Plato's. ... Plato's theory of knowledge is very simple compared to Arm...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... Spartan Influence on Plato's Scheme of Education: In his scheme of education Plato was greatly influenced by Spartan system of education. ... Plato's Theory of Education: Plato sees in education the only true way to the permanent stability of the state. ... In this there is something of the theory of "Reminiscence" which was propounded by Plato in his dialogue, the Meno. ... Plato also felt the necessity of moral education. ...

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In his book, Meno, Plato tries to give a definition to virtue. ... Plato tries to explain what justice is in his other work, The Republic. ... Plato contends that there should be three classes; rulers, auxiliaries, and tradesmen. ... Plato's society is based upon perfection and philosopher kings. ... Plato writes about steps to enlightenment, but how biased are his assertions? ...

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This is Plato's vital question in the Socratic dialogue Theaetetus. Plato's character Socrates is the primary force used to pick this question apart. ... Plato himself poses this objection in the Socratic dialogue Meno. ... (Meno, 85) Socrates invokes the example of a man providing others with directions to the city of Larissa. ... Still, one is led by deductive reasoning to understand at the very least that knowledge is not true belief, and Plato retracts the former statement made by the character Theaetetus. ...

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This bit of dialogue is important because it introduces the idea behind much of Plato's writing insofar as there is an instance here of the "one over many principle" which constitutes the theory of Plato's Forms. ... The fact that Euthyphro does not enjoy doing the dialectic is indicative of most other people during the time of Socrates and Plato. ... He is keen and quick-witted, as Plato rightly presents him, and the central character in many of Plato's dialogues. ... The "one over many principle" is the theory behind Plato's Forms which are presented and detailed in ot...

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Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ... Parmenides started rationalism and Plato continued with his theme. ... Plato also agrees with Heraclitus, "about the world revealed to us through our senses (122)." ...

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Socrates left no writings of things that he thought of, but his teachings were passed on to his famous pupil Plato. ... In Plato's dialogue Meno, for example, Socrates guides an uneducated slave to the formulation of the Pythagorean theorem, demonstrating that such knowledge is buried in the soul, rather than learned from experience. ...

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 In the studies of Socrates you will almost always find cases that contain complaints or, just, the act of Socrates bothering people with his questions that, I must say, are poorly received by others. Surprisingly we have come across not one but two positive statements amidst all of the confu...

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Aun asi Enrique le explica que no podian regrezar a su pueblo en Guatemala por que seria asesinados por los militares, asi que Don Gutierrez decide ayudarlos a pasar hacia el Norte pero le pide al menos cien dolares para ayudarlos a pasar, Enrique se da cuenta que no cuenta con esa cantidad de dinero y decide retornar a casa para decirle a su hermana de lo sucedido en ese dia. ...

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