The Plato Paradigm

Socrates continues telling Io about the divine power, this time using the analogy of bees spreading

The alternative to Io having a techne is that he is possessed by a divine power. Socrates first uses

Io seems almost to challenge Socrates to tell him why he is exceptional as someone with a techne, in

Socrates appears to perform a normal sequence of induction, but things are not quite what they seem.

To exemplify the point that any techne deals with the whole of the field of that techne, Socrates re

The rhapsode Io can judge of the poets both who speaks well and who speaks less well since he has th

Socrates concludes from the examples with arithmetic and medicine that the one who has a techne in a

Socrates steers the conversation back to the subject matter by asking who will recognize who speaks

Socrates does dialectic "badly" (as usual), failing to compare and contrast clearly and concisely. H

Socrates and Io are already talking at cross-purposes. Socrates appears to want to talk about the rh

Socrates concentrates his supposed envy of rhapsodes on their ability to understand the poet. Apart

The dialogue Io is very short but still not well understood. All agree that Socrates is talking to a

We are finally in a position to uncover the underlying concept or idea of the dialogue which is dram

The deigmata (examples).

We look at the various characters in the dialogue, so consistent that they may be regarded as models

This is the second part of the overview of the dialogue Meno. Once again, we see that nothing actual

This and the following podcast provide a brief summary of the dialogue Meno, emphasizing the lack of

Before reaching conclusions regarding the dialogue Meno, I thought it would be helpful to provide an

The end!Who would be the politikos who could make another person politikos?  If reasoning has led to

Socrates provides Meno with a new answer to the question asked by Meno at the beginning of the dialo