external text
Plato, Meno
the Meno
also: Menon, Meno
Plato's dialogue on whether virtue can be taught, famous for the slave-boy demonstration in which Socrates elicits geometrical truths to show that learning is recollection (anamnesis). Cicero cites it for the doctrine of the soul's pre-existence.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.57 in that book entitled the \textit{Meno}, Socrates puts to a certain young boy some geometrical questions
Plato's Meno (82b-85b), where Socrates draws correct geometrical answers from an untaught slave-boy to demonstrate that learning is recollection (anamnesis) of knowledge the soul possessed before birth.