PHIL 1000 : PHIL1000 Midterm Notes
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Socrates sees it as a chance for meno to finally see himself. I know what a table is so i don"t need to search. If this paradox were true, then we wouldn"t ask questions. Part 1: if something is known, then no search/no questioning (complete knowledge) Part 2: if unknown, then no search/no question (complete ignorance) You can trip over a table and still not known what it is. Then saw those same souls lined up at a river to be baptized in forgetfulness so they. Doctrine of recollection is the way out of the paradox. Your soul lives on and on and always learns. Guy dies, then comes back from the dead and tells what happened to him in his previous life. He saw heaven, the truth of the world, people"s souls as they died. wouldn"t remember what they have seen before. Moral of the story: there is nothing that we (our souls) haven"t already learned before.
