Meno Socrates Recollection

Introduction: In Meno, Socrates insists that what we learn is just recollection. Socrates and Meno begin to discuss what virtue is and from then they move on to talk about what Socrates concept of recollection is. Socrates brings up an example about a slave boy in which he gives him a geometry problem to solve, without any knowledge. Socrates, then tries to prove his paradox to be true.
Exposition:
At the beginning of the reading, they begin to argue about whether virtue can be taught. From there, they move on to trying to figure out what exactly virtue is. But since Meno, can’t really answer the question, Socrates then begins to bring up a paradox. A paradox in which it says that learning is impossible, considering that either you know what you are looking for or you don’t. From there, he begins to say if we already know what we are looking for, then the answer is simple and there wouldn’t be any necessity to go looking for the answer. But, if we don’t know what we are looking for, then how do we know what we found to be correct, if there isn’t a way to see if we’re right. Socrates, then brings up his concept of recollection.
Going from this, he then bring up the concept of the soul; in which the soul is immortal. In which he continues on to say that we have had previous lives, in which we learned some sort of information beforehand. And the concept of recollection comes into the picture now, in the life that we are living, we remember the information about the previous life. This would mean that we aren’t looking for the information, simply we are just recollecting or remembering the information. Socrates, then goes on to explain his theory, while using a slave