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The Argument from Recollection
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Plato's primary goal in the Phaedo is to argue that the soul is immortal. To do this, he first aims to establish that the soul can (and did) exist prior to our birth without the body. One of the arguments Plato gives for this claim is the Argument from Recollection. Plato tells us that the way in which we come to have knowledge of the Forms is a process of recollection. The soul previously had knowledge of the Forms prior to our birth. That knowledge was, in some sense, forgotten at birth, and can be recovered through philosophical dialogue and reasoning. As such, the instances of imperfection we come into contact with through our sense-experience are reminders of the perfect knowledge we once had. In fact, we could not even recognize the imperfection of our sense experience if our soul did not still have some knowledge of the Forms waiting to be recollected. But, what sort of kind of knowledge of the Forms does our soul possess at birth? Why think we need recollection to account for our abstract ideas of perfect concepts? Can't we get these ideas through our sense experience? Do we even have such ideas? • For the pdf document used in this video see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DhgJ...
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