Tapping into innate knowledge is a mystery that has baffled generations of educated men and women, denying them the ability to affirm with certainty and truth that knowledge is comparable to a saucepan shared in a family or on a company picnic; that everyone can reach their own depths and draw the realization of bodily understanding from the resources of disembodied knowledge and make it their own. According to the Advanced English Dictionary, knowledge is “the psychological result of perception, learning, and reasoning,” while the psyche is “that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; seat of the faculty of reason”, finally episteme is “the set of ideas that determine intellectually certain knowledge at a given moment” and which indicate the possibility of foreknowledge before the birth of a child. Where does this "knowledge" come from? Where does the soul come from? If you take into consideration the Christian Holy Bible, Genesis 2:7 which states: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living soul.” Socrates' argument about innate knowledge goes hand in hand with the beliefs of Christianity, because Adam formed from the dust of the earth and Eve from his rib were given knowledge of everything. Socrates states: “Thus the soul, because it is immortal and has been born many times and has seen all things both here and in the other world, has learned all that is. It is therefore not surprising that he can recall the knowledge of virtue or anything else which, as we see, he once possessed” (Meno 81c). Socrates continues to prove to Meno with the example of the boy and the area of a square. “Observe Meno, the scene h...... in the center of the card ...... in which, as the sun set in the west, his soul would return to the presence of God and he would be totally healed and purified by all of the obstacles and toils of the earth. What greater epithet could friends give to a departed soul: "Such, Echecrates, was the end of our companion, who was, we may justly say, of all we have known in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright"? man” (Phaedo 118a). The body decays and returns to the dust from which it was created and the soul returns to that which lent the essence of life to the body, Socrates knew as the swan sang more beautifully as death approached, that death was not to be to fear but to embrace. Works Cited Hamilton, Edith & Cairns, Huntington. Plato: the collection of dialogues including letters. 20th edition. Princeton: Bollingen Foundation. 2009. Print.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
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