Course Content: As a case study, we shall consider one of Plato’s  dialogues, the Meno. As far as we know, Plato wrote no philosophical treaties, but dialogues. Nevertheless, many philosophers and commentators have tended to represent him and his philosophical thoughts as if he had. This simple observation suggests that we have not yet had a unified picture of Plato and his philosophical thoughts. One possible explanation for this one might be tempted to put forward is that Plato did not care primarily about the content of philosophical thoughts, but the structure of philosophical practice, that is, philosophical diagoue, which is his style of engaging philosophical activity, and after all, all one can claim to know safely is not what Plato claims contentwise, but the structure of his dialogues. Here is the question we would address in particular in this course: Was Plato primarily not interested in the content of his philosophical thoughts, but the structure, better the activity itself? If so, then why?