Plato s Meno True Opinion Vs. - 983 Words

Plato’s Meno: True Opinion vs Knowlege Socrates was one of the most influential and thought-provocative people in all of Ancient Greece; he was so monumental in his teachings that his theories and argumentative styles are still utilized today. One of Socrates’ most influential students was Plato, another ancient philosopher that followed Socrates through Greece and kept record of his arguments and teachings, who would go on to be some of the most significant philosophical academia to ever be published. In one of Plato’s recordings, the Meno, he records an argument that Socrates enters with a friend of his, Meno. In this argument, Socrates and Meno are attempting to define virtue, and are having a very difficult time in doing so considering that they were two brilliant and learned men. In the Meno, Socrates argues that true opinion and knowledge differ from each other, although sometimes it seems that they can serve as replacements for one another. However, Socrat es is able to form an argument to help Meno see how knowledge and true opinion differ from each other. As I read the Meno, I found that I agreed with Socrates and his platform which argued that the two did in fact differ from each other, but they could also serve as two separate means for the same ending. While Socrates and Meno were having their debate over the definition of virtue, Socrates asks Meno if he thought that he had a definition of virtue, and Meno began listing what virtue would entail for different