Meno is a dialogue that holds a key position within the entirety of Plato's work. It stands at the threshold of the transition from the author's early, purely "Socratic" phase to his middle, more "mature" period, during which he appears to abandon the constraints of the purely elenctic methodology employed by Socrates in his discussions and ventures into formulating his own original and revolutionary theories. These theories have since been considered to constitute the core of what is widely recognized as Platonic philosophy. Theories such as that of the "separate" ideal forms or the immortality of the individual soul, as well as the correlation of both virtue and proper political action with a specific form of knowledge, though not yet fully developed, seem in this dialogue to be in a phase of crystallization and recognition of their mutual interconnection within a comprehensive and entirely novel theoretical framework for its time. This allows us to follow the journey that led a great philosopher like Plato from the persistent, but mostly perplexing and seemingly dead-end investigation and critique of the views circulating among his contemporaries, to the radical and fundamental restructuring of the prevailing notions about the world and human society of his era, resulting in the re-foundation and re-evaluation of the entire value system upon which human life is based.