The document discusses Plato's dialogue Meno from 402 BCE between Socrates and Meno where they debate the nature of human virtue. A key theme is anamnesis, the idea that the soul is eternal and through recollecting can learn and know everything. Socrates engages Meno in a "scale-model elenchus" to discuss virtue and their debate ultimately reaches the classic state of Socratic aporia without a clear conclusion.

3. Meno - 402 BCE
 Socrates and Meno
discuss on human virtue

4.  Important and recurring
Platonic themes
Anamnesis – the idea the soul is eternal,
knows everything, and only has to “recollect” in
order to learn
 scale-model elenchus
 classic state of Socratic aporia

5. Socrates
Meno
Virtue - arete
Thessaly

6. Gorgias
Sophist
Elenchus
Eidos –stature/appearance
Empedocles

7. - effluvia (the elements that
enter through our sense organs)

8. pp. 65-72