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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'The Statesman' and 'Leviathan'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine

5961	The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato]
	Full Idea: From its composer the soul possesses all beautiful things, but from its former condition, everything that proves to be harsh and unjust in heaven.
	From: Plato (The Statesman [c.356 BCE], 273b)
	A reaction: A neat move to explain the origins of evil (or rather, to shift the problem of evil to a long long way from here). This view presumably traces back to the views of Empedocles on good and evil. Can the soul acquire evil in its current existence?

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

2356	Appearance and reality can be separated by mirrors and echoes [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: If colours or sounds were in the bodies or objects that cause them, they could not be severed from them, as by glasses, and in echoes by reflection, we see they are; where we know the thing we see is in one place, the appearance in another.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.01)