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Plato's Ion and Meno
Plato's Ion and Meno
Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle.
A similar discussion between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics; we are left wondering how to acquire such knowledge.
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"I will fight with all my might in both words and actions for this claim: We will be better and braver and more useful if we think that we ought to search for what we don't know than if we believe there is no knowledge and no point in searching for it."