Kristof Answer the following in the form of an explanatory linterpretive) essay
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Kristof Answer the following in the form of an explanatory linterpretive) essay Writde your eay lin ur o words and from your own perspective. Ia the dialogues-the Meno and the Phaedo,Plato argues for the doctrine of Forms(deas,the of the soul and the acquisition of knowledge in this life as a process of recollection What is argument?(how and why does he arrive at the position he holds?).What role does Socrates' solution to the "paradox of inquiry" riddle of learning"play in the process of acquisition of knowledge?What is the role of sense perception in regaining the soul's awareness of the Forms?What is the difference between knowledge and belief?In what ways does the theory of knowledge as recollection,the separate existence of the Forms,and the belief in the preexistence of the soul,stand or fall together? preexistence Note about interpretive(explanatory,argumentative)essay In an explanatory essay,the emphasis is not so much on what Plato (or any other thinker)says jbut more importantly on why he says what he says. Thus ,your job is to position that he holds.In other words you are asked to argue for what he says not j what it is.It is as if you are being asked to act as his ambassador or his defense attorney to back him up by providing evidence fpr his claims.If you simply state what his position is without showing how and why it arises you are not writing an explanatory essay,but a summary show how and why Plato arrives at just to state or declare While writing your essay you must assume that the reader knows nothing about the topic you are dealing with.Thus you have to write in such a way that anybody who reads your paper understands what your claims are.In other words your essay has to be self explanatory it has to stand on its own feet. Again, What I want you to do is to walk me step by step through Plato's reasoning for the interdependence of his doctrines.Do not simply tell me what it means that they are. For example,to say that the Forms(Ideas) have a separate existence,of course means, that they are outside space and time. What I am asking you to do is to show me what are Plato's reasons for saying that,how and why does he argue for this,what makes him think like that Meno PMEDO in Plato, Five Dialegues T2,LAvINE, PP. 3-68 R.c. Solo mon, pp, 66-49 Cthedtlon 127-B9 10th edition
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Plato in his debate with Meno and Phaedo gives the accounts of doctrines of forms, Pre-existence of the soul and the acquisition of knowledge through the process of recollection. According to him the forms or ideas already exist and we only identify or learn them through the process of recollection. When he uses the word recollection, he says that the soul already knows things from previous birth.
1. Paradox of inquiry's role in acquiring knowledge. Today's brain storming sessions can be considered as recollections. People gather and share their opinions, that is their existing knowledge and these opinion needs recollection to turn them into knowledge.
2. The primary argument is that there is a form for everything truth, virtue, goodness etc. What we call them today as abstract nouns that could be only felt but not seen with naked eye. According to Socrates, imperfect reflections cannot help us learn forms because forms are learned through previously gained knowledge and so they need to be recollected effectively.
3. The idea of immortality of soul was present in almost every religion and cultures. Hindus believe in seven births and Christians believe in reincarnation. According to these beliefs, only the physical body decays leaving the soul for a new body on this earth. According to Plato, the knowledge that the soul learnt with the previous physical body is carried over to the new body. He proves it by testing Meno's slave with mathematical forms. He kept inquiring the boy and the boy after careful recollection was able to provide answer for Plato's queries on Mathematics.
4. Belief is the baby and knowledge is an adult. We all have some belief or opinions that are temporary but when this belief or opinion is recollected and strengthened it becomes knowledge or the belief or opinion is dropped. We must have seen people sharing their opinions and they are persuaded to change their opinion through recollection. Because belief will become knowledge when supported by recollection.
In my point of view, I agree that forms do exist but I don't think the pre-existence of the soul which identifies things. If the hypothesis 'Pre-existence of the soul' and that it carries the knowledge of the previous life with it is true, then why should someone keep going to the school or college and learn the same thing in every birth.
I also agree with the fact that opinions or beliefs become knowledge through recollection. I have experienced it many times because i have changed most of my opinion and beliefs including religion over a period of time by reading, listening and reflecting about it. That's why in classrooms, these types of essays are given to reflect, recollect and write.
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