HUMS 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
8 Feb 2019
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The learner"s paradox is an idea presented by meno in the meno dialogue that asks. In the meno dialogue, when socrates asks meno for a definition of virtue, meno instead provides a list of virtues for individuals. Socrates points out that meno has not gave a definition, but simply examples of virtues, which is called the swarm of virtues. This is one of several ways by which socrates disproves meno"s perception of virtue. Learner"s paradox how we can learn anything if one is wholly ignorant of what it is. A man cannot search either for what he knows or what he does not know. He cannot search for what he knows- since he knows it there is no need to search- nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for. Socrates poses this in response to meno"s suggestion of the learner"s paradox.
