Virtue in the Cave Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno

Name: Virtue in the Cave Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno
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ISBN: 9780195140767

ISBN-10: 0195140761

ISBN-13: 9780195140767

Edition: 2001

Authors: Roslyn Weiss

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In this radical new interpretation of Plato's Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely held assumption that the Meno introduces "Platonic" metaphysical and epistemological innovations into an otherwise "Socratic" dialogue. She shows that the Meno is intended as a defense not of all inquiry but of moral inquiry alone, and that it locates the validity of Socratic method in its ability to arrive not at moral knowledge but at the far more modest moral true belief. Through a careful, and provocative, reading of Plato's Meno, Weiss identifies serious problems in its orthodox interpretations, offering an alternative that is…

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List price: $155.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Roslyn Weiss is Clara H. Stewardson Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University. She is the author of The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's 'Meno,' and Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's 'Crito.'



Introduction: In the Cave



The Struggle over Definition



Impasse, Paradox, and the Myth of Learning by Recollection



The Slave-Boy: Learning by Demonstration



The Road to Larisa: Knowledge, True Opinion, and Eudoxia


Conclusion: The Examined Life



Recollection in the Phaedo



The Abandonment of Moral Inquiry in the Republic


Bibliography


Index