Plato: Dialogue and Logic #
A Division of the Meno #
division · Meno Division of the Meno · 6 pages · PDF · 01-Division_of_the_Meno.pdf
Covers: Outline of the whole Meno (Stephanus 70A-100B): Meno’s question whether virtue can be taught, and the three conversations (what is virtue; how one can investigate the unknown; whether virtue can be taught), ending with Socrates asking Meno to calm Anytus.
Read from in:
- Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 15. Porphyry’s Five Predicables: Property, Accident, and Genus vs. Species as Relative Distinctions (from 28:01) · p. 2
Meno (paper on the Meno as an introduction to logic) #
paper · Meno 02 · 9 pages · PDF · 02-Meno_Paper.pdf
Covers: Berquist’s essay on Plato’s Meno as an introduction to logic. It defines a Platonic dialogue and divides the Meno into three parts using Albert the Great’s division of logic. The first part (70B-80D) concerns the simple unknown and definition. The middle part concerns the possibility of inquiry. The third part (86D-100B) concerns the complex unknown, whether virtue can be taught. It closes with the philosophical dispositions Socrates shows: humility, desire to know, fear of error, and hope.
Read from in:
- Natural Hearing — 63. Physics VI: The Continuous Is Not Composed of Indivisibles, and Democritus’ Cone (from 44:47) · p. 6
- De Anima — 140. Summa I q.84 a.7: Why We Think Through Images, and Why the Brain Isn’t the Organ of Thought (from 30:23) · p. 6
- Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 34. Truth and the Cause: Why Wisdom Most Considers Truth, and the Beginning of the First-Cause Argument (from 5:27) · p. 1