Brief essay on disagreement with assertion that knowledge is kept through recollection. Cites Phaedo by Plato
In Phaedo 73b to 77, Plato argues that learning is in fact recollection of knowledge because that since the soul existed in previous lives, it contains knowledge from previous lives. This argument is weak because of how most people learn, what age they learn it at, and how they are taught.
In the dialogue between Socrates and Simmias, they first agree that the soul does not die with the body but lives on, spending some time in Hades and then returning into a newly borne body. T…
