Dialogue Between Meno And Socrates

The Meno is the literary work done by Socrates the main theme in this dialogue/story is what is virtue. The dialogue between Meno and Socrates gives insight and question on what it is. It begins with Meno telling Socrates that he has been under the spell of Socrates and that he did not know what virtue was. This is what started the whole conversation between the boy, Meno, and Socrates. First off Socrates asks Meno what virtue is Meno listed examples about virtue but he did not the exact definition. Instead Socrates uses an analogy with the priestess and priests of who believe that people have an immortal soul. He also then uses the torpedo fish, which is a metaphor for when people are “paralyzed” by for being confused and having inconsistent.
This metaphor correlates with this because many people get confused on the rights and wrongs. Towards the end of this dialogue he explains his actions and beliefs through testing Meno’s slave about how many feet are in the squares. He did this so he could get the boys real knowledge, after he asked the boy another set of questions to see if he can recollect the questions that Socrates had asked him before. This shows that we have according to Socrates “true thoughts which only need to be awakened into knowledge by asking questions” (Cunningham 3) By asking the boy to recollect the questions he would be able to recognize and understand what he was being asked.