Opening Meno — Plato in Plato Scroll…
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Plato · David Horan
Well, Socrates, can you tell me if excellence can be taught? Or is it incapable of being taught but attained instead through practice? Or is it incapable of either being attained through practice or learned, and does it come to people rather by nature or by some other means? Meno, previously the Thessalians were famous among the Greeks, and much admired for their horsemanship and their wealth, but nowadays I think they are also admired for their wisdom, especially the people of Larissa, the fellow citizens of your companion Aristippus. In your case, Gorgias is responsible for this, for when he arrived in their city he captured the foremost of the Aleudae – among whom were your lover, Aristippus, and other leading Thessalians – since they were lovers of his wisdom. What is more, he got you into the habit of answering fearlessly and magnificently when anyone asks you anything, after the …
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