Linked List / July 2023

Anamnesis ➶

Stéphane Pigeon:

To Plato — the ancient Greek philosopher — learning is a paradox: a person can neither learn what he already knows, nor inquire about what is outside the scope of his knowledge. But what if knowledge was already in our soul from before birth? Socrates suggests that the soul could be immortal, and repeatedly incarnated. What one perceives to be learning, then, could be actually the recovery of that latent knowledge acquired from eternity, but lost in the trauma of birth. This process, Socrates refers to as Anamnesis.

✶ Tuesday, 25 July 2023


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