Week 2: Meno, the Cave and Education

While I found that reading and understanding Meno to be rather challenging (and I will require many more to feel confident in my interpretations) I was struck with the beginning where Meno provides examples of virtue rather than, much to Socrates' chagrin, an overall definition. I related to this challenge as in our first assignment we had to provide our thoughts on what makes a person educated. To me both virtue and education are large umbrella terms that can mean a variety of things to a variety of different people. In our reading for example the author discusses how virtue to the Greeks…