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Virtue in the Cave - Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno (Paperback)
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Virtue in the Cave - Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno (Paperback)
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Virtue in the Cave is a study of Plato's Meno. Taking the
dialogue's central theme to be the question of what virtue is, this
book explores the limits of moral inquiry. It argues that, unlike
mathematical problems that can be resolved definitively, and unlike
technical enterprises whose success can be objectively assessed,
moral matters can be only tentatively settled by reasoned
argument-at least in the material world to which we all are
confined. Whereas Meno is not satisfied with an inquiry whose final
result falls short of knowledge, Socrates sees value in joint moral
investigation that culminates in true opinion. This study attends
closely to the literary aspects of the dialogue and to its
rhetorical nuances, raising doubts about Socrates' allegiance to
the metaphysical doctrines-transmigration of souls and the theory
of recollection-that he himself introduces. It suggests that
Socrates tailors these notions specifically to Meno, in order to
encourage him to pursue doggedly the inquiry into virtue, an
inquiry he is all too prepared to abandon when the going gets
rough.
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