This work uses the analogy of a swarm of bees to illustrate how a form can encompass many individual characteristics.
This work uses the analogy of a swarm of bees to illustrate how a form can encompass many individual characteristics. One speaker in this work asserts that another is "like a flat torpedo fish", as the latter "torpifies those who come near him". This work's title character debates whether whiteness is the essence of "color" or simply "a color" before being struck by aporia and asking "how can you (*) ask about that which you do not know?". This book closes by stating since virtue cannot be taught, it must be a gift from the gods. In this dialogue, Socrates explains that all learning is the recollection of past knowledge through the example of doubling the square. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates claims all knowledge is innate while teaching a slave geometry.
This work uses the analogy of a swarm of bees to illustrate how a form can encompass many individual characteristics.
Meno