Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Cratylus', 'Phaedo' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

3 ideas

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

357	People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato]
	Full Idea: The way in which people react to a geometrical diagram or anything like that is unmistakable proof of the theory of recollection.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 073a)

359	If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato]
	Full Idea: If someone sees a resemblance, but feels that it falls far short of the original, they must therefore have a recollection of the original.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 074e)

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason

9343	To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato]
	Full Idea: We are convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 066c)
	A reaction: This seems to be the original ideal which motivates the devotion to a priori knowledge - that it will lead to a 'pure' knowledge, which in Plato's case will be eternal and necessary knowledge, like taking lessons from the gods. Wrong.