Event or Condition. Anamnesis and Innatism from Meno on

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Franco Ferrari
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/1
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 1-24 File size 240 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2020-001001
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This essay focus-­ es on the theory of recollection in Plato’s Meno. It shows that behind the mythical de-­ scription of the prenatal vision of intelligible forms by the soul lies Plato’s intention to underpin the thesis according to which the soul possesses a nature that allows it to know true being, because the soul is akin (syngenes) to the intelligible world. This means that Plato’s conception of recollection does not refer to an event but to a condition.

Keywords: Plato, epistemology, recollection, innatism

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Franco Ferrari, Evento o condizione? Anamnesis e innatismo a partire dal Menone in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2020, pp 1-24, DOI: 10.3280/SF2020-001001