Socrates' Failure Socrates is of course a historical figure. For our purposes, he is a figment of Plato's imagination. Similar to the ending of a movie saying " all characters are fictional and any similarity in name or personality is strictly coincidental." I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. From the beginning then, we must consider that all of Plato's works are fictional. We must also consider the fact that these arguments were totally constructed …showed first 75 words of 592 total…

…showed last 75 words of 592 total…up of appendixes, a body part that has no purpose. If we use Socrates' definition of "good speech" he most definitely fails at making one in Plato's Meno. If by definition a question needs an answer, Socrates never responds to anything. He automatically fails on that level. Also, if this living creature of a speech consists of pieces of argumentation such as we see in the Meno, Socrates fails at making a "good speech" altogether.