The Meno describes a conversation that Takes place between Socrates and Meno, a young aristocrat from Thessaly. Meno asks Socrates whether or not virtue can be taught, or if people are born with virtue. In turn Socrates states that they cannot investigate how one comes to be virtuous if they do not have a definition for virtue. After unsuccessfully finding a definition searching for a virtue, Socrates asks one of Meno’s slaves to figure solve a geometry problem. Though the slave has never studied geometry, Socrates is able to show that the slave simply recollected information to solve the problem. Antony's happens upon Socrates and Meno and fails to persuade Socrates and Meno that virtue can be taught. It is then that Socrates realizes that good men only come to …show more content…
If both produce the same results, and both are contained within the minds of men, how could they be different? It would seem that they very much are the same. I would ask someone if they thought people only hold opinions if they believe it themselves to be true. The reason it is their opinion, is that they have confidence in it. If they did not have confidence in it, it would not be their opinion. A person with knowledge has the same confidence in their knowledge as the person with an opinion has in their opinion. Each of them, true opinion to one, and knowledge to the other, regard their opinion or their knowledge the same. In this, both true opinion and knowledge are the same. Socrates differentiates these two by saying a true opinion must be tied down by giving an account of the reason why it is their opinion, and then it become knowledge. But why? Socrates admitted that a true opinion must always succeed, because it is a true opinion (97d). If a true opinion will always succeed, why must it be tied down? For if a person regards true opinion the same way a person regards knowledge, and true opinion will succeed just as well as knowledge, how is true opinion not