Publisher Description
When Meno offers Socrates a swarm of virtues instead of one, the philosopher asks what all the bees have in common.
In Plato’s Athens, a confident young visitor from Thessaly asks whether virtue can be taught or comes by nature. Socrates admits he does not even know what virtue is, then tests Meno’s definitions—virtue for a statesman, a woman, a child—until each answer opens another difficulty. Their exchange is playful, but the stakes reach beyond clever talk: without knowing what virtue is, how can anyone know how to acquire it? As Meno’s certainty gives way to puzzlement, the search for wisdom becomes its own riddle. What can we seek if we do not yet know what we’re looking for?
With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.
Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
