Plato's Ion & Meno

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Summary: Excellent! Listen to it, learn it, and love it!
Review: These recordings bring the dialogues to life! The Ion is a discussion between Socrates and Ion, an interpreter of Homer, who tries to argue that he knows everything in Homer's work, but Socrates shows that only experts know about what Homer writes. The Meno is a discussion about virtue, and whether it is teachable. This dialogue contains Plato's famous doctrine of recollection and Meno's Paradox about knowledge. Socrates ends by arguing that virtue is not teachable, but instead is a divine gift. You owe it to yourself to listen to these the way the Greeks talked about these timeless philosophical issues - we haven't solved these issues yet!