... instead asks a series of questions which lead the student to uncover the desired knowledge by completing the series of logical questions. The Socratic method is the basis for many of the philosophical conclusions reached in Plato's Phaedo. As Socrates questioned his students and friends they came to many different deductions, ranging from the theory of forms to the existence of an afterlife for the ... soul. Augustine too relied upon a basis of questioning in order to reach his ... as it presented Christians with the fact that God is within reach. * * * Augustine and Plato were both bri...

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... principle" is the theory behind Plato's Forms which are presented and detailed in other dialogues (Phaedo, Republic, Meno, Parmenides, etc.). It simple means that a statue of Helen of Troy, for example, is considered beautiful because it participates in the Form of Beauty. And the Form of Beauty is an intangible, divine, perfect, immortal theory of the idea of beauty-much like a sort of heaven for Plato. There are many other forms (the Good, the ... True, etc.) and the forms ... ...

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... , we recollect the knowledge from our soul. the soul, that is, the human mind, before it is united with the body, is aquatinted with the intelligible world or the world of Forms. In this prior existence, the true knowledge. After its union with a human body, a person's mind contains its knowledge deep in its memory. True knowledge in this world consists ... recollection. What the mind or soul once knew is raised to present awareness by a process of recollection aided by the technique of dialect or the Socratic method. (Stumpf 260) This is known as the theory of recollection. The theory o...

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