Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and by Dominic Scott

By Dominic Scott

This e-book is worried mainly with theories approximately studying within the heritage of philosophy, specially historical philosophy. one of many major questions is: does our wisdom come up simply out of expertise or can we have a few innate wisdom in addition? The publication is unique in evaluating diverse theories over a large interval in a manner that are meant to be available to scholars of philosophy and classics in addition to execs. It additionally has a piece on seventeenth-century discussions of innate wisdom and their relation to old idea.

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20 Platonic recollection cover different stretches of intellectual development according to which interpretation one follows. K takes the broader stretch. It attempts to explain our intellectual activity from infancy through to maturity in terms of a continuous path of recollection. One theory is made to embrace the earliest glimmers of intelligence and the vertiginous heights of philosophical achievement at once. On D, Plato only uses recollection to cover the period of later or higher learning, the movement from the mundane perspective to the philosophical.

The general issue must therefore concern a discovery yet to be made by someone who has nevertheless attained the normal stage of human understanding. 1 The point at issue therefore concerns a discovery that has so far proved formidably difficult to make, and so the theory brought in to address this issue is not going to be centrally concerned with mundane concept formation. Thus, to the extent that D focuses its interest on the higher learning, it is in tune with the context of the Meno. If recollection in this dialogue did in anyway concern the acquisition of ordinary concepts it would only do so tangentially.

The whole process essentially involves thinking for oneself. As for the true beliefs mentioned in the conclusion, the 11 Compare this with the 'aviary' regress in Theaetetus 2ooai2ff. The Meno 39 only good thing about them is that they are true. Otherwise they are disparaged as the product of learning by hearsay or tradition, ironically referred to as 'divine dispensation'. True belief is marked by an absence of reflection and an unwillingness or even inability to think for oneself. Precisely because it is instilled by an external source, hearsay, its development is entirely independent of recollection.

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