Plato's "Meno" in Focus

The book is designed to serve as a handy "starter-kit" for the study of this important work. In one volume it brings together a new English translation of the text, a selection of illuminating articles on themes in the dialogue published between 1965 and 1985 and and introduction setting the Meno in its historical context and opening up the key philosophical issues which the various articles discuss. All the articles are clearly focused on the text and have proven their value for undergraduates studying the Meno . The interests of readers with little or no knowledge of Greek are borne in mind throughout the volume. Jane Day's translation is particularly designed to be useful to such readers by preserving more consistency in its Greek terms than is found in the English translations, thus providing a more reliable reflection of the details in the original. There is also a glossary which briefly introduces some of the key terms and indicates how they are translated. Within the articles, too, Greek words and phrases at various points in the original printing are accompanied or replaced in this reprinting by a translation. The Meno , is an excellent introduction to Plato and to philosophy.

ISBN 0415002974   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415002974 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 499 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series editor Rickwood, Rick, Male, D., Rickwood, David (Department of Biology, University of Essex) Format Hardback   Series title In Focus Publication date 16 Dec 1993   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress B377.P53 1   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 170   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate Pages 276   Interest age 18

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Abbreviations
		Introduction by Jane M. Day		1
I		Synopsis of the Meno		1
II		Plato's life		4
III		The date of the Meno and its place in the development of Plato's thought		9
IV		The dramatic setting of the Meno		14
V		Philosophical themes and issues in the Meno		17
		Translation of the Meno by Jane M. Day		35
		Socrates by I. G. Kidd		73
		Anamnesis in the Meno by Gregory Vlastos		88
		Learning as Recollection by Julius Moravcsik		112
		The First Socratic Paradox by George Nakhnikian		129
		Inquiry by Nicholas P. White		152
		Socratic Definition by I. M. Crombie		172
		Conclusions in the Meno by Kathleen V. Wilkes		208
		Meno's Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher by Alexander Nehamas		221
		Notes on contributors		249
		Glossary		250
		Bibliography		252
		Index		257

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