Online Philosophy in Pubs Reading Group: Plato’s Meno

This is a short post to notify those interested in next months reading group (Thurs 11th June, 7pm – 9pm) that our next piece of reading is going to be Plato’s Meno.

You can read an online version of it here: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html 

or download an eBook version of it here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1643

This Socratic dialogue starts with Meno asking Socrates how one can acquire virtue, whether it comes through teaching, practice or some other method. The discussion quickly turns into asking what virtue is, and how we can ever have knowledge of such things, or knowledge of any thing whatsoever.

I’ll be adding another blogpost later to explore some of these questions and perhaps suggest some further reading for anyone who might be interested. We will also be sending out a quick guide to reading philosophical texts, to help with digesting and analysing some of the trickier points we come across when reading these texts.