Meno and Other Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics)

Meno and Other Dialogues brings together four Platonic dialogues concerned with virtue, knowledge and the philosophical search for definition. In Charmides, Laches, Lysis and Meno, Socrates questions familiar assumptions about qualities such as temperance, courage, friendship and virtue, repeatedly exposing the difficulty of explaining what we think we understand.

This Oxford World’s Classics edition is translated by Robin Waterfield and includes an introduction and notes that place the dialogues in their intellectual and historical setting. The collection provides an approachable entry into Plato’s Socratic method and his developing thought on ethics, education and knowledge, while giving readers four important examples of the dialogue form.