Interlocutor Vs Meno

First of all, Meno demonstrates Socrates's effort to guide his interlocutor to achieve thorough understanding of virtue and what his interlocutor actually received. Socrates's questioner is Meno, who is a young man trying to engage in unethical military and political affairs. Very well absorbed in his aristocratic origin, Meno also has a fierce pride in the ideas on virtue that he acquired from Gorgias, a sophist who focuses on the teaching of rhetoric and the external representation of knowledge. Meno started the conversation with a burning question: "Can you tell me, Socrates, can virtue be taught?" (Meno, 70a) This question suggests his fixed focus and is the primary thing that he cares about in the conversation with Socrates. To Meno's
Secondly, Meno formulates a broad and imperfect definition. He regards virtue as the acquisition of beautiful things in the context of a type of virtue - justice. Thirdly, Meno failed to look, which uncovers his dangerous hold of self-esteem. He is only concerned with a specific and corollary question: "can virtue be taught?” rather than searching for the answer to the original and ultimate question: "what is virtue?” After observing the unchangeable nature of Meno, Socrates uses his last attempt to differentiate between true knowledge and right opinion, which can lead to similar action and outcomes. His vital note is that right opinion is easy to lose, but true knowledge can be recollected at any time. A person can listen to another's teaching without pondering and assume that he knows the knowledge behind it, while he only possesses transient right opinion, like Meno's receipt of Gorgias's ideas. However, he will never grasp the real knowledge, which will encompass all specific situations and stay within an industrious, pensive, and open
In this dialogue, Socrates is attempting to defense himself at the trial and prove his innocence, while others are trying to put him to death for introducing strange gods and corrupting the youth. Socrates's first sentence sets the tone and direction for the whole dialogue. Socrates, in addressing the men of Athens, states that he almost forgets who he is because of