Using the example of the “knowledge of the equal,” Socrates states that “if we acquired this knowledge before birth, then lost it at birth, and then later by the use of our senses in connection with these objects we mentioned, we recovered the knowledge we had before, would not what we call learning be the recovery of our own knowledge, and we are right to call this recollection?” (Reeve and Miller 119). For Socrates, the human soul exists in the realm of the forms and it is here that we have knowledge of the universe. It is for this reason that humans often have what seems to be an innate ability to learn and understand the world. According to this argument, the soul is in being before birth, thus it is again proven to be
Using the example of the “knowledge of the equal,” Socrates states that “if we acquired this knowledge before birth, then lost it at birth, and then later by the use of our senses in connection with these objects we mentioned, we recovered the knowledge we had before, would not what we call learning be the recovery of our own knowledge, and we are right to call this recollection?” (Reeve and Miller 119). For Socrates, the human soul exists in the realm of the forms and it is here that we have knowledge of the universe. It is for this reason that humans often have what seems to be an innate ability to learn and understand the world. According to this argument, the soul is in being before birth, thus it is again proven to be