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Course Description

“Can you tell me, Socrates – is excellence something that can be taught?” For some, the Meno stands as a bridge between the interests in self-improvement and the improvement of others by the “historical” Socrates and the development of Plato’s own contributions to the love-of-wisdom: the practice of dialectic, the recollections of the immortal soul, and the metaphysics of the Forms. We’ll read this dialogue over a quarter and a half, and then begin an earlier dialogue, a minor literary masterpiece, the Protagoras – in which Socrates spars verbally with the famous traveling teacher and winds up wondering what exactly excellence is to begin with.

HUAS48017

Prerequisites

At least one year of introductory ancient Greek, preferably Attic, but Homeric or koine Greek are also fine.
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