PHI 1104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Canine Tooth, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ressentiment

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Discuss the accounts of the afterlife found in the following and relate them to the image of the. Meno asks if virtue can be taught or if it is learned in another way. Conversation turns into how do we learn. Meno wonders how you can inquire into something that you don"t already know because. Now he knows he does not know. He has given him the torpedo"s shock. now he will wish to remedy his ignorance. This is recollection: the spontaneous recovery of knowledge through questioning. Socrates reasons that if the slave boy did not acquire the knowledge in this life, he must. Have had and learned it at some other time. (p. 41) Phaedo: a young friend of socrates who was with him on the day when he drank the poison. Socrates and plato both believed that two things exist matter (the body) and soul (the mind) In socrates opinion this is an endless source of trouble.