series of questions yet, never actually telling him the answers Socrates helps the slave to "recollect" the knowledge that is within him. Meno is of course astonished with th

Now the question is would Socrates have maintained that ignorance is bliss based on his views of the possible ways of acquiring virtue? I would conclude that he would not see ignorance as bliss because Socrates believes that the truth is far greater than the unknowing. Throughout the dialogue Socrates and Meno journey to put aside their ignorance to come to the truth on how virtue is acquired and possibly more importantly what virtue is. Even though the path to truth has proved painful in that the two are more perplexed on the topic at the end of the dialogue then at the beginning Socrates would

have seen this as the first step to achieving the truth. This of course is better than notachieving that step at all. Socrates is ultimately concerned in finding the whole truth and would have defiantly preferred knowing some of the truth rather than being ignorant to it. Even though Socrates knew that the journey to reach the truth may be painful, ignorance would be far worse than a painful truth. Ultimately he knew that the way must be tried!

With this statement Socrates closes the discussion, but he has still not answered the question of how virtue is acquired. Moreover he has admitted that no more can be discussed on the matter until virtue in itself is defined. Ultimately Socrates does not know how virtue is acquired. For all of these methods of possible acquisition he has developed no solid answer, and thus has no definite preference to any of the possibilities that have been stated.

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