This knowledge, Plato believed, was gained when the soul resided in the invisible realm, the realm of The Forms and The Good. Plato's theory of The Forms argued that everything in the natural world is representative of the ideal of that form. ... Therefore, in arguing his theory of recollection, Plato proved that there is no true learning in this world; there is merely recollection of the knowledge the soul had previous to this life. ... Taken together, these three points make up Plato's theory on the transmigration of the soul. ... Phaedo. ...

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Much of Plato's beliefs on the soul can be found in his dialogues, "The Republic" and "Phaedo," where he describes that he is a dualist; this means that he believed that the soul and the body were two completely separate entities that worked in conjunction with each other to create what we would deem to be a reasonable human being. Plato aims to be able to prove this to everyone through rational logical arguments; most of these are established in "Phaedo." ... He believed that the soul, once the body has died, will go to the world of forms. ... A world of forms is almost impossible for th...

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In Phaedo, Plato recalls Socrates' last hours of his life in a jail at Athens. The dialogue is told by his friend, Phaedo, who later told Echecrates [and later Plato ]. ... He argues his theory ofr immortality with three arguments, one of them being recollection. ... There must be some previous knowledge of absolute forms before being reminded of them by perception. ... Socrates' theory of recollection is not adequate for the idea that souls are immortal....

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The main arguments concerning the immortality of the soul come from the Phaedo. ... It had to have come from some previous existence in some other form, which in this case would be hot. ... So therefore there must be a form of being dead, which we are to assume is the freed soul. ... At this point, Socrates seems to abandon this theory and brings out his second point. ... Therefore, Socrates" friends are forced to abandon their lyre and harmony theory. ...

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