Μένων

A philosophical dialogue investigates whether virtue can be taught by testing attempts to define virtue, asking if different forms correspond to different people or share a single essence. It presents a skeptical paradox about how one can learn what one does not know, answers by proposing a theory of recollection, and illustrates this claim with a geometrical demonstration involving a novice. The discussion distinguishes true belief from knowledge by linking knowledge to an account, explores whether virtue is knowledge, habit, or a divine gift, and ends without decisive resolution while clarifying methods of inquiry and the nature of moral understanding.