Plato's Ion & Meno

The Philosophy Documentation Center is pleased to offer dramatized, unabridged versions of philosophical dialogues on audio CD from Agora Publications. In Plato's Ion & Meno, Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle. A similar discussion between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge could be acquired. The text is presented in an updated version of the Jowett translation, which helps to bring the work to life for students and non-academic audiences.

Agora Publications specializes in the production of dramatized philosophical dialogues, which are published in both electronic and print formats. In the classroom student response has been "extremely enthusiastic. They seemed to feel it was entirely contemporary." The recordings have also been popular with non-academics wishing to explore the basic questions in western philosophy. All of these dialogues are available to individuals on CD, and institutional licensing of the entire collection is available.

· ISBN 1-887250-12-3 · Published in 1998 · audio CD · 2 hours · $25
· ISBN 1-887250-10-7 · Published in 1998 · paperback · 75 pages · $12.50

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