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Discussion Of Virtue In Plato's Meno

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During this week’s intro to Plato’s Meno and the idea of inputting a portion of the first few pages to improve life I stumbled across an interesting topic. This was what I call differences in species and matter or like Sacrates described it by asking, “… you think it is only in the case of virtue that there is one for a man, another for a woman and so on.” (2). There, we can see that he wants to make sure that Meno knows that “virtue” is no different for man than for a female than for a child. Therefore, this becomes the first anti-racial argument that was established. They talk about how bees have different attributes, this being my state of matter, from one another, yet because they are all bees, the same specie, we call them and categorize them as bees and nothing else. If that is the case, we are all humans. Life can be better if we avoid an everyday pre-judgment state …show more content…

Nevertheless, I went with my day with that in mind and it was surprisingly a good experience. I met a couple of people that I would’ve judged immediately and provably never speak to them because they seem homosexual; yet when I started talking to them I found out we are not that different. They were incredibly funny and not to say real good people. If I wouldn’t had talked to them like I did with no pre-judgement I wouldn’t have met this two incredible people. I have always avoided and felt distanced to people that are homosexual; yet I had never given the opportunity to any of them to actually know them and give a better judgment out of that. After seeing this result in only one day of my life and seeing how people are not really what they seem all the time I can certainly say that for a better life a non-pre-judgmental attitude towards the world is

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