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 …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…if the soul is immortal, it must be able to develop these things during one's lifetime.         In conclusion, I found this argument to be weak. While it does support the idea that a person can recollect knowledge from a current life, it does not support carrying knowledge from one life to another. The argument given in Phaedo does not deal with concrete examples and fails to take into account that thought had to start somewhere.