Socrates: Meno, I think Anytus is angry, and I am not at all surprised: for he conceives, in the first place, that I am speaking ill of these gentlemen; and in the second place, he considers he is one of them himself. Yet, should the day come when he knows what “speaking ill” means, his anger will cease; at present he does not know. Now you must answer me: are there not good and honorable men among your people also?

In the part 5 of Plato’s of Meno Socrates shows his point of view which means there is a kindly inside of people’s heart and some people is angry but it is not out of surprised. In my opinion Socrates is trying to let Meno believe that everyone have kind in their mind but some of the people are have angry in their mind.

In the part 3 and part 4 of Plato’s Meno there is a quote which shows that Socrates think that virtue is a kind of wisdoms which is from people’s soul.

Socrates Then if virtue is something that is in the soul, and must needs be profitable, it ought to be wisdom, seeing that all the properties of the soul are in themselves neither profitable nor harmful, but are made either one or the other by the addition of wisdom or folly; and hence, by this argument, virtue being profitable must be a sort of wisdom.

Socrates was trying to convince Meno that virtue was a sort of wisdom and that is  come from soul which is saved in last century. so he think if people keep remembering in their life they could know many knowledge and wake the virtue up which is inside of their soul.  In my opinion the theory he is trying to telling Meno is perfectly wrong but that was right at that moment because it’s easy to let somebody know something. If we put his theory in 2019 that will be a paradox so it’s no fit to now.

And the other thing is that he think knowledge was in the soul and it’s saved from last century so if people keep remembering they could get knowledge from their soul. This is also totally wrong whenever in that moment or now.

In the part two of Plate Meno, Meno was cannot understand his states clearly so he was confusing about this and he still have a conversation with Socrates. And after that Socrates think that learning is recollection which means people have to keep learning and if you want to learn more knowledge and other things you have to get these things in confusing.

In my opinion I think that Socrates was trying to persuade Meno that knowledge have to be learning in confusing and people have to keep learning because he think learning is recollection, however Meno was really confusing about what he is talking about.

Socrates： I remarked just now, Meno, that you are a rogue and so here you are asking if I can instruct you, when I say there is no teaching but only recollection: you hope that I may be caught contradicting myself forthwith.

Meno： I assure you, Socrates; that was not my intention I only spoke from habit. But if you can somehow prove to me that it is as you say, pray do so.

Socrates： It is no easy matter, but still I am willing to try my best for your sake. Just call one of your own troop of attendants there, whichever one you please, that he may serve for my demonstration.

Above all, Socrates think there is no teaching but only recollection, and Meno agree with him at now. After this, Socrates think there is nothing easy in the life.

In my opinion Socrates’s point of view is not fully true because learning do can recollect about knowledge but that is not the only way to keep remembering, on the other hand if a person is in confusing when he learn something difficult, probably he meet a problem so confusing is not the meaning of learning.

In the first part of this Plato’s Meno, Meno and Socrate have a big conversation about what mean virtue. Meno is asking Socrate and he get a lesson from logical reason. And Socrate get a conclusion about why people do evil things.

 Meno: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue can be taught, or is acquired by practice, not teaching? Or if neither by practice nor by learning, whether it comes to mankind by nature or in some other way?

Socrates: Meno, of old the Thessalians were famous and admired among the Greeks for their riding and their riches; but now they have a name, I believe, for wisdom also, especially your friend Aristippus’s people, the Larisaeans. For this you have to thank Gorgias: for when he came to that city he made the leading men of the Aleuadae–among them your lover Aristippus–and the Thessalians generally enamored of wisdom. Nay more, he has given you the regular habit of answering any chance question in a fearless, magnificent manner, as befits those who know: for he sets the example of offering himself to be questioned by any Greek who chooses, and on any point one likes, and he has an answer for everybody. Now in this place, my dear Meno, we have a contrary state of things: a drought of wisdom, as it were, has come on; and it seems as though wisdom had deserted our borders in favour of yours. You have only to ask one of our people a question such as that, and he will be sure to laugh and say: Stranger, you must think me a specially favoured mortal, to be able to tell whether virtue can be taught, or in what way it comes to one: so far am I from knowing whether it can be taught or not, that I actually do not even know what the thing itself, virtue, is at all. And I myself, Meno, am in the same case; I share my townsmen’s poverty in this matter: I have to reproach myself with an utter ignorance about virtue; and if I do not know what a thing is, how can I know what its nature may be? Or do you imagine it possible, if one has no cognizance at all of Meno, that one could know whether he is handsome or rich or noble, or the reverse of these? Do you suppose that one could?

Meno: Not I. But is it true, Socrates, that you do not even know what virtue is? Are we to return home with this report of you?

Socrates: Not only this, my friend, but also that I never yet came across anybody who did know, in my opinion.

From this big conversation we could know that Socrate are trying to indicate that virtue is getting kind by truth thing, and Meno is arguing with Socrate for instance Meno think Socrate don’t know what virtue is so they do have argument during this conversation.