Recollecting Plato`s Meno

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Reinterpreting Socrates ...........11 prolegomena ........11 the question asked .............17 Trading in excellence at athens ...........20 Socrates answers ..........23 The Answers wanting ..........26 False Closure ..............30 2. Recollecting recollection ...............35 Puzzling puzzles ..............35 Recollection as teaching substitute .......38 Remythologising philosophy ...........39 Awakening, not teaching ...........44 In need of a Reminder ............47 Learning with socrates ...............49 3. Moving forward .............55 Groping their way forward ..............55 Empiricsm ............63 Anytus..............65 Correct views and Things known .............68 Failure .........72 4. Early Reactions ...........77 Divine allocation-socrates ..........77 Divine allocation - Plato .........80 Divine allocation - Dubia and Spuria ..........82 Aristotle -references to the meno ...........89 5. Late Hellenistic reinterpretation ...........101 Introduction ..........101 Cicero, on laws: Platonic Sources in an Eclectic Text .........106 Recollection and assimilation ........115 The meno and the natural Notions ..........118 The on laws and the protagoras .......121 6. Middle Platonic Epistemology and the Common NOtions ...............127 The dialogue`s Place in Thrasyllus platonic Corpus ..........127 The meno in the al-farabi arrangement ..........130 The importance of the meno in anon ...........135 The answer to the epistemological question ............139 Plutarch on the common notions and on causes ........144 The common notions in our cognitive lives ............146 A role for the Common notions in moral life .........149 7. Late platonist interpretation of the Meno`s Ethics ..........153 Grades of knowledge, grades of Excellence .........153 Another handbook compared ..........156 Grades of knowledge in the theaetetus-commentator ............158 Lesser excellence and the platonist goal ............162 Explaining prophetic Excellence .........164 8. The late antique Meno........167 The epistemological Legacy forgotton ..........167 Interpretation in the service of Personal vision ...........172 Dim memories in Proclus and Beyond ........175