The theory of recollection is told through Plato in the Phaedo and the Meno. ... "In his dialogue entitled the Meno, Plato illustrates how Socrates is able to show that even a young uneducated slave boy knows some truths of geometry not because somebody taught him that subject but because be naturally knows the relationship of various ideas to each other." ... In the Meno, Socrates states that the boy is "recovering by oneself knowledge within oneself." (Plato 85D) Knowledge in the Meno is perceived as having an acquaintance with the object, but not knowing how it functions. ... (C...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... Spartan Influence on Plato's Scheme of Education: In his scheme of education Plato was greatly influenced by Spartan system of education. ... Plato's Theory of Education: Plato sees in education the only true way to the permanent stability of the state. ... In this there is something of the theory of "Reminiscence" which was propounded by Plato in his dialogue, the Meno. ... Plato also felt the necessity of moral education. ...

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This is Plato's vital question in the Socratic dialogue Theaetetus. Plato's character Socrates is the primary force used to pick this question apart. ... Plato himself poses this objection in the Socratic dialogue Meno. ... (Meno, 85) Socrates invokes the example of a man providing others with directions to the city of Larissa. ... Still, one is led by deductive reasoning to understand at the very least that knowledge is not true belief, and Plato retracts the former statement made by the character Theaetetus. ...

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