Plato

Plato's 'Meno' vs. Plato's Is Learning Recollection
Plato's 'Meno' / The Immortality of the Soul
http://www.novelguide.com/meno/themeanalysis.html
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~cr733888/MasterThesis3.htm


http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2f.htm
This language of Forms is nothing other than the recollection of the vision which the soul had before incarnation. To understand these universal principles, and to be able to classify data from sense perception would not, according to Plato, be possible if we had not already had knowledge of the General concepts. However, Plato does not try to show that only philosophers are able to reach this truth through immortal souls. He believed, in the Phaedo, that all human souls were immortal.

Plato held that everyone had in them knowledge of the Forms. Yet this knowledge could not have been acquired since birth, for we cannot use our senses to determine the true Form, rather we must use rational reflection, and therefore it must have pre-exist...