... Plato's ethical doctrine are found in the Phaedo: the theory of recollection and the theory of forms. Although they differ they"re both vital in supporting the other. Before understanding the theory of recollecting, I think a sound understanding of the theory of forms is necessary. The theory of the forms is hinted at in previous books like the Meno ... but it isn't until the Phaedo before it is really introduced. The basic idea behind the theory of the forms is that in a sense, there are two realities. According to Plato, there is what we perceive to be "real" and ... ideas. For example...

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... and wrong. Socrates is the first philosopher, I will discuss. Since Socrates did not write anything down, Socrates thinking is told through his student, Plato, who wrote his teachers" thoughts. Socrates is an idealist who believes that things are in born. Therefor he believed that before we are born ... or the Socratic method. (Stumpf 260) This is known as the theory of recollection. The theory of recollection is told through Plato in the Phaedo and the Meno. In the theory of recollection "Socrates" answer to the paradox is that knowledge is recollection. This thesis allows a man to .....

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... is that, "Socrates is interested in the arts of communication and argument, in techniques of persuasion (Melchert, 63)". The Athenians, with the exception of Plato, thought of Socrates as a Sophist, a designation he seems to have bitterly resented. He was, however, very similar in thought to the Sophists. Like ... it is not the real bike because it only covers one form of the bike. However, the doctrine of Forms is essential to Plato's philosophy. Plato came to his view of the Forms based on two premises: first, that knowledge cannot come through the senses; and second, we ... soul from...

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