Just like Plato's Meno and Socrate's allegory of the cave, Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" was a story about moral and educational failure. ... Like Meno, of Meno, Clerici would fail, a victim of his own desire to learn only "correct opinions" to guide his actions and unwillingness to exercise his "prudence," practical reason to help him understand the "correct opinions" more dynamically. ... Such mirrored the failure of Meno, in Plato's Meno, whose downfall was also in part due to his desire to learn only "correct opinion...

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Some accredit Plato with the invention of philosophy, while A. ... This contrasts with Plato's initial postulation of a Demiurge. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... "6 This has become known as 'Meno's Paradox'. Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ...

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