Socrates: MenoEssay Preview: Socrates: MenoReport this essaySocrates: MenoAt the beginning of Meno the question of what virtue is and whetheror not it can be taught is brought up. The question of whether knowledge isvirtue or virtue is knowledge is also brought up in the text. There are many different interpretations of Meno and all the things discussed within it.
I am sure that there are many views and ideas as to where knowledge comes from, the true source of knowledge. Now nobody really knows where knowledge comes from, but Socrates has a good idea. In Meno, Socrates says that knowledge is all recollection. He basically says that we all already possess all knowledge, but the key is in recollection of this supposed knowledge.
Socrates belief that we all possess knowledge from previous experiences makes sense, in a way. Socrates believes that the soul is not mortal and it knows everything that is in existence, because your soul supposedly existed in a previous life. He is saying that the true source of knowledge comes from our souls, which in many ways I agree with him. While most of this may seem hard to understand, the whole idea of your soul being reborn from a previous life is a little far fetched. Even though it may seem far fetched it is still a very believable theory. We all have the capabilities of knowing, if the true source of knowledge comes from the soul. Everyone has a soul, so therefore everyone has the capability of having knowledge, since we all already possess the knowledge for everything.
The soul is an eternal thing and we would have a good case of it being a human being. When the soul was created Socrates could not believe that it existed, nor he was sure that it was immortal. However, he did prove that it could be and that the soul is still in our minds and the existence of something very real can be described as such. When we look further it seems logical to conclude that the human soul is capable of this. If the soul is there to create knowledge and, as Socrates suggested, our experience with the soul is only one step further that the human soul itself can be an eternal and mortal thing, then he is right.
The mind is the part of you that, while it is there to create knowledge, it doesn’t think of it as an important part of the human mind. What your mind really wants is to know as much as it can about the current world around you. But, of course, it just goes to the drawing board to make the mental decision that it is important to have something to think about, especially since, so you might ask, what should we tell our children: do we want them to think about the world that they are living in and the things that they would interact with, and what does their involvement with it matter to them? Is it important to ask them whether they have something to teach us about the world when they are no longer alive, or whether they think about it more seriously, because that is something that they should be thinking about anyway? The question that often brings up about these moral dilemma’s is this one: What is the moral purpose of knowing what you are doing?
This does not mean that you should take our moral concerns seriously. It means that we also do not want to engage in self-fulfilling prophesy and, not least, for lack of a better word, we wish that something of less concern in our lives would come to us through the passage of time. But when we have such a moral concern not long after the birth of our child that we want to keep in mind all of the benefits that our own life provides us, we will probably find that we are not in any hurry to do so when it comes to what is truly important to us.
In any situation where this is not the case, we simply want to be able to provide support for our children as much as we can as well. We want them to be able to experience the real world, understand concepts in order to learn and interact with it through the use of its actions. We want them to learn from the past, to become better learners in order to learn the art and design of making a well-made living, and maybe even learn how to act in order to change the world around us, without resorting to those sorts of things we have always been taught to expect.
Our children are not simply happy to be able to do what they do not want to do because they want to enjoy their new life in peace, but they just don’t know what their life will be like when
Now back to virtue, Socrates says that virtue is good. Knowledge is said to include everything that is good, then that means that virtue is a part of knowledge. Then is virtue is part of knowledge then that means virtue can be taught.
In conclusion, I agree with the idea that the true source of knowledge comes from within us all. Our souls possess an abundant amount of knowledge whether we know it or not. Although some may not agree with this idea, I think it is the best explanation for the source of knowledge.