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A Commentary on Plato鈥檚 Meno

A Commentary on Plato鈥檚 Meno

Role: Author
Jacob Klein (1899 鈥 1978) came to St. John鈥檚 College, Annapolis, in 1938, and remained a tutor there until his death.

The Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a theatrical presentation. Just as Socrates’s listeners would have questioned and examined their own thinking in response to the presentation, so, Klein shows, should modern readers become involved in the drama of the dialogue. Klein offers a line-by-line commentary on the text of the Meno itself that animates the characters and conversation and carefully probes each significant turn of the argument.