In the second class session of our course, we will be working through the second Platonic dialogue for this class, Plato's Meno. We will focus on the first half of the dialogue in this week.

On Saturday, we will hold our second online class session using Zoom. We will be recording the class session, and it will be uploaded for all of you students as an unlisted YouTube video embedded here in our class site (these won't be shared with non-students). After that, I will open the Week 2 Discussion Forum to student comments and questions, so that we can continue the discussion throughout the week

The specific topics we will be working through during this week's class session are:

• Attempts to define by examples
• Whether or not virtue can be defined
• Priorities among the virtues and goods
• Effects of Socratic questioning
• The “Meno paradox” about knowledge
  
  

You will doubtless find it useful to read through Plato's dialogue, the Meno before our class session, perhaps more than once. You will also likely discover that rereading that portion of the text after participating in or watching the class session will help you develop a deeper understanding of Plato's ideas.