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柏拉图作品集·曼诺篇 ［古希腊］柏拉图 著 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 柏拉图作品集·曼诺篇 ［古希腊］柏拉图 著 * 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 责任编辑：郝刚 ※ 印张 12 千字 2002年 12月第 1 版 2002年 12 月第 1 次 印刷 印数 :__ ISBN L-YY-0161/B502.2 定价 2元 380 BC MENO by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett MENO PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE MENO; SOCRATES; A SLAVE OF MENO; ANYTUS Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way? Socrates. O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were famous among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their riding; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Larisa, which is the native city of your friend Aristippus. And this is Gorgias doing; for when he came there, the flower of the Aleuadae, among them your admirer Aristippus, and the other chiefs of the Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a grand and bold style, which becomes those who know, and is the style in which he himself answers all comers; and any Hellene who likes may ask him anything. 1 How different is our lot! my dear Meno. Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you. I am certain that if you were to ask any Athenian whether virtue was natural or acquired, he would laugh in your face, and say: Stranger, you