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Musings on the Meno (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
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Musings on the Meno (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
Series: Nijhoff Classical Philosophy Library, 1
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The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of
Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its
philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary
literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical
Text, 1. Burnet's Platonis Opera (Oxford Clarendon Press 1900) Vol.
III. In conjunction with this I have made extensive use of R.S.
Bluck's Plato's Meno (Cam bridge University Press, 1964). At
critical places in the dialogue I have also consulted A. Croiset's
Gorgias, Menon (Bude text). My debt o two other sources will be
clearly in evidence. They are E.S. Thompson's Plato's Meno (London,
MacMillan 1901), and St. George Stock's The Meno of Plato (Oxford
Clarendon Press, 1894). One of the greatest difficulties facing a
translator is to achieve a balance between accuracy and elegance.
Literal translations are more likely to be accurate, but, alas,
they also tend to be duller. Free translations run into the
opposite danger of paying for elegance and liveliness with the coin
of inaccuracy. Another hurdle, for a translator of a Platonic
dialogue, is posed by the challenge to maintain the conversational
pattern and fast moving character of the discussion. This is easier
where the exchang s are short, but much more difficult where
Socrates gets somewhat long-winded."
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