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100 1 $aSternfeld, Robert.
245 00 $aPlato's Meno :$ba philosophy of man as acquisitive /$cRobert Sternfeld and Harold Zyskind ; foreword by George Kimball Plochmann.
260 0 $aCarbondale :$bSouthern Illinois University Press,$cc1978.
300 $axvi, 176 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aPhilosophical explorations
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn the small world of the Meno, one of the early Platonic Dialogues, often crit{u00AD}icized for being ambiguous or inconclu{u00AD}sive, or for being a lame and needless concession to popular morals, two dis{u00AD}tinguished philosophers find a perspec{u00AD}tive on much of twentieth-century phi{u00AD}losophy. According to Sternfeld and Zyskind, the key to the Meno{u2019}s appeal is in its philosophy of man as acquisitive{u2014}in the dialogue{u2019}s notion of thought and action as a process of acquiring. The means of acquiring values and cogni{u00AD}tions provides the context in which the mind has most direct contact with them, which grounds common sense generally and ties the dialogue techni{u00AD}cally to the emphasis on the im{u00AD}mediacies of the mind{u2014}language, ex{u00AD}perience, and process{u2014}in much of re{u00AD}cent philosophy. Sternfeld and Zyskind proffer Plato{u2019}s 2,000-year-old philosophy as valid still in competition with other, and more modern, modes of thought, and suggest the need for a major turn in philosophy which can take us beyond its minimal philosophy without distorting the basic values on which the Meno shows man{u2019}s world to rest, however, precariously, even today.
600 00 $aPlato.$tMeno.
700 1 $aZyskind, Harold,$ejoint author.
700 1 $aZyskind, Harold,$eauthor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSternfeld, Robert.$tPlato's Meno.$dCarbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1978$w(OCoLC)654728763
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