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 his philosophical thoughts as if he had one unified system of thought, though going through some changes in time. 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 about the content of his philosophical thoughts after all. All one can claim to know safely is not what Plato claims content-wise, 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?