Socrates, Meno, A Slave Boy And Anytus: An Analysis

Meno” is one of Plato’s dialogue collections. In this book, Socrates, Meno, a slave boy and Anytus are four main roles. In this specific theme, the argument starts from the question asked by Meno, “What’s the virtue and whether it is something teachable?” Socrates states that he doesn’t know what exactly virtue is, but it must be something good defined as a common essence for human being; it is also defined different to different people, but it must be able to satisfy one’s desire.
Then Meno presents Socrates his paradox. Basically, he believes that if we don’t know something, we will never be able to get to know it in the future, “since we don’t know what we’re looking for and won’t recognize it if we found it”. Socrates claims that we can