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	Platonic doctrine of recollection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Platonic doctrine of recollection is the idea that we are born possessing all knowledge and our realization of that knowledge is contingent on our discovery of it.
		Whether the doctrine should be taken literally or not is a subject of debate.
		This doctrine implies that nothing is ever learned, it is simply recalled or remembered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platonic_doctrine_of_recollection (136 words)

	Platonic realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Platonism is a philosophical term usually used to refer to the idea of realism regarding the existence of universals after the Greek philosopher Plato who lived between c.
		In Platonic realism, universals do not exist in the way that ordinary physical objects exist, but were originally thought to have a sort of ghostly or heavenly mode of existence.
		Plato's doctrine of recollection, however, addresses such criticism by saying that souls are born with the concepts of the forms, and just have to be reminded of those concepts from back before birth, when the souls were in close contact with the forms in the Platonic heaven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platonism (1194 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Plato and Platonism
		Plato (Platon, "the broad shouldered") was born at Athens in 428 or 427 B.C. He came of an aristocratic and wealthy family, although some writers represented him as having felt the stress of poverty.
		Their successors, however, in the twelfth century came to a knowledge of the psychology, metaphysics, and ethics of Aristotle, and adopted the Aristotelean view so completely that before the end of the thirteenth century the Stagyrite occupied in the Christian schools the position occupied in the fifth century by the founder of the Academy.
		There were, however, episodes, so to speak, of Platonism in the history of Scholasticism -- e.g., the School of Chartes in the twelfth century -- and throughout the whole scholastic period some principles of Platonism, and especially of neo-Platonism, were incorporated in the Aristotelean system adopted by the schoolmen.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12159a.htm (2992 words)

	Wikinfo \| Platonic realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to Platonic realism, universals exist in a "realm" (often so called) that is separate from space and time; one might say that universals have a sort of ghostly or heavenly mode of existence, but, at least in more modern versions of Platonism, such a description is probably more misleading than helpful.
		This is known as the doctrine of recollection.
		Platonic realism is probably strongest in satisfying the third constraint, that is, as a theory of what general terms refer to.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Platonic_realism (1113 words)

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		The Platonic doctrine of recollection and the Platonic notion of the transmigration of souls figure prominently in his conceptual background as he develops his epistemology.
		Plato, however, fails to recognize that while recollection may provide a type of transcendence of the physical, it is itself imagistic, and hence subject (in principle) to the errors associated with sense perception.
		This doctrine, especially when taken together with the Pauline emphasis on the abilities of natural reason to figure everything out from nature, also makes empirical knowledge reliable in a manner in which it could never be for Plato.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/augustine/sheri (10247 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Philo, therefore, was not compelled to seek in the Platonic Nous, which is merely the directive cause of creation, or the Stoic Logos, as the rational soul of the universe, the foundation of his doctrine.
		It is to him that we owe the statement of the doctrine of grace, that wonderful gift of God to regenerate man. Christ had already taught, in the allegory of the vine and the branches (John 15:1-17), that there can be no salutary action on the part of the faithful without vital communication with Him.
		Paul is not only the chief exponent of this doctrine, but he alone of the Apostles promulgates anew the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist, the principal fountain of grace (1 Corinthians 11:23, 24; cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03712a.htm (8716 words)

	Plato [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Aristotle, suggests that at least some of the doctrines Plato puts into the mouth of the "Socrates" of the "early" or "Socrates" dialogues are the very ones espoused by the historical Socrates.
		Platonic dialogues continue to be included among the required readings in introductory and advanced philosophy classes, not only for their ready accessibility, but also because they raise many of the most basic problems of philosophy.
		No traces of the doctrine of recollection, or the theory of reincarnation or transmigration of souls, are to be found in the dialogues we listed above as those of the early period.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/plato.htm (7918 words)

	Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Neoplatonism is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 CE.
		One of the results of Porphyry's conservative position toward traditional religious practice and belief was the 'return' to the doctrine that the stars and planets are capable of affecting and ordering human life.
		Augustine, also, was responsible for imparting a sense of Neoplatonic doctrine to the Latin West, but this was by way of commentary and critique, and not in any way a systematic exposition of the philosophy.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/neoplato.htm (6884 words)

	Knowledge and the world of the forms
		His next step, in a truly master stroke, is to further unify the doctrines of Hericlitus and Parmenides to show that it is possible for there to be both pure unchanging entities which he calls the forms, and the constantly changing things of the sensual world.
		Plato does not need to get into detail about it because the doctrine of recollection insures that the basic substance of everyone's knowledge is the same and therefore people can exchange ideas about things that all are acquainted with even though they may have different opinions concerning them.
		The doctrine of recollection does not require that one experience exactly the same thing in order to be reminded of it.
	n4bz.org /gsr2/gsr205.htm (4681 words)

	Biblical Trinity is not borrowed from the pagans!
		It is probably a mistake to assume that the doctrine resulted from the intrusion of Greek metaphysics or philosophy into Christian thought; for the data upon which the doctrine rests, and also its earliest attempts at formulation, are much older than the church's encounter with Greek philosophy.
		The earliest development of the doctrine may in fact be viewed its an attempt to preserve the balance between the various statements of Scripture, or their implications, without yielding to views which, though logical enough, would have destroyed or abandoned important areas of Christian belief.
		The Pauline doctrine of the incarnate heavenly Man was indeed apprehended; it fell in with Greek notions, although it meant something very different from the notions which Greeks had been able to form of it.
	www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-pagan.htm (7211 words)

	The Doctrine of Carpocrates
		Without question, his doctrine and the ancient religion of Antinous were contemporary faiths, born almost simultaneously, and doomed to the same fate, growing, flourishing, fading, and dieing in the same place at the same time.
		Through Platonism, which was rapidly developing into Neo-Platonism, the formidable last stand of the Pagans against the growing influence of Christianity theology, we are connected to the vast, wide-spread and interconnected teachings that extend through the Gnostics and Hermetics and Platonists, to the Pythagoreans, and Orphics that preceded them.
		The Doctrine of Carpocrates is not for everyone"For not all true things are to be said to all men." They are dangerous and have the capacity to destroy anyone who takes them on, and so they should only be approached with extreme caution, like the Mysteries of Narcissus.
	www.antinopolis.org /carpocrates.html (19164 words)

	A Whiteheadian Account of Value and Identity
		Interestingly, Whitehead holds that this claim is a summary of his endeavor "to avoid the feeble Platonic doctrine of ‘imitation’ and the feebler modern pragmatic dismissal of ‘immortality"’ (ESP 89).
		The balance issues in his fundamental doctrine of creative process or evolution, which modulates between the notion of mere possibility (lacking directional influence or aim) and the notion of a rigorous directional determinism.
		As noted above, Whitehead’s doctrines imply that a narrowing pessimistic attitude, a lack of faith in the possibility of creative advance, is evil, particularly by its obvious tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2367 (6990 words)

	Figure57b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Based on the Platonic doctrine of recollection, it asserts that the process of learning is simply recalling through the process of living and learning, and to the adult mind, knowledge gained in a pre-existent spiritual realm lost to the individual at birth.
		Nostalgia and recollection assist the aged to return to their youth.
		Nostalgia, memory, and recollection maintain a continuity of experience, or, education, as one generation passes on its body of wisdom to the next.
	education.umn.edu /EDPA/iconics/gallery1/Figures/figure57b.html (155 words)

	Christian Reincarnation
		This, as we know from Platonism, is indeed a degradation, for the highest type of manifestation is on the mental level and the lowest is on the physical.
		Christ's countrymen seem to have thought of the doctrine of reincarnation as an intriguing, if unproven theory; the Israelites were aware, of course, that their sacred scriptures didn't specifically endorse this theory, but, since they didn't condemn it either, the general population apparently felt it best to keep an open mind about the whole idea.
		Considering such widespread conjecture about the doctrine of reincarnation in 1st century Israel, the people of his own time undoubtedly assumed Jesus had been openly promoting this doctrine when he claimed that the man now known as John the Baptist was the same man who centuries earlier had been the famous prophet Elijah.
	members.tripod.com /cryskernan/christian_reincarnation.htm (12353 words)

	Plato: Forms
		In the remainder of our readings from Platonic dialogues, we will assume that the "Socrates" who speaks is merely a fictional character created by the author, attributing the philosophical doctrines to Plato himself.
		In the middle and late dialogues, Plato employed the conversational structure as a way of presenting dialectic, a pattern of argumentation that examines each issue from several sides, exploring the interplay of alternative ideas while subjecting all of them to evaluation by reason.
		This is the doctrine of recollection, Plato's conviction that our most basic knowledge comes when we bring back to mind our acquaintance with eternal realities during a previous existence of the soul.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/2f.htm (2276 words)

	Universalism, the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During its First Five Hundred Years
		Neither is it the purpose of the author of this book to write a history of the doctrine; but his sole object is to show that those who obtained their religion almost directly from the lips of its author, understood it to teach the doctrine of universal salvation.
		The doctrines of substitutional atonement, resurrection of the body, native depravity, and endless punishment, are not lisped in the earliest creeds or formulas.
		The Platonic doctrine of a separate state where the spirits of the departed are purified, and on which the later doctrine of purgatory was founded, was approved by all the expositors of Christianity who were of the Alexandrian school, as was the custom of performing religious services at the tombs of the dead.
	www.tentmaker.org /books/Prevailing.html (12712 words)

	Gail Fine - Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays - Reviewed by Christopher Shields, University of Oxford - ...
		If the slave passage shows these stories to be correct, then it too presupposes both the doctrine of recollection and the pre-natal existence of the soul, just as Plato claims it does (85d9-86b4).
		If we add to this already heavy arsenal a claim made only later, in the Phaedo, that the doctrine of recollection stands or falls together with the theory of Forms (76c7-d7), then we may well be left wondering why Plato did not simply unmask the equivocation and rejoin his inquiry into virtue.
		Plato concludes that passage by once again adverting to the doctrine of recollection (Meno 85d9-86b4), but it is not clear that he has any need to do so.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=3681 (2673 words)

	Education Resources » Socratic method
		The Parmenides shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates; it is not the only dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato/Socrates are broken down through dialectic.
		The primary goal of Socratic method in law schools is not to answer usually unanswerable questions, but to explore the contours of often difficult legal issues and to teach students the critical thinking skills they will need as lawyers.
		Sometimes, the class ends with a quick discussion of doctrinal foundations (legal rules) to anchor the students in contemporary legal understanding of an issue.
	www.thecatalyst.org /resource/2006/04/21/Socratic-method (1706 words)

	Critique of Marxist Philosophy Part 1 - Light of Islam
		The Platonic theory is false because soul does not exist in an abstract form prior to the existence of the body, being the result of substantial motion in matter.
		Realism (which in metaphysics means that reality is not reducible to mind and thought, and in epistemology means the doctrine that objects of knowledge and experience exist independently of their being known or experienced) bases its arguments on these two principles.
		Relativism, in the context of metaphysics and epistemology, is, according to al-Sadr, a doctrine which asserts the existence of independent reality and the possibility of knowledge, but a relative knowledge that is not free from subjective attachments.
	home.swipnet.se /islam/articles/martyr-1.htm (9757 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Lacan, Kierkegaard, and Repetition - by Marcus Pound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Because repetition is constituted on the basis of creating a difference, unlike recollection which avoids time, repetition becomes an existential task in which the subject is engaged in his or her contingent striving.
		In summary Kierkegaard opposes the Pagan doctrine of recollection to the Christian doctrine of repetition.
		With regard to recollection (the imaginary) the emphasis in the reading is placed on the identity of the wishful cathexis and the perceptual cathexis: the child’s perception, in presuming the relation between the desire and the object constitutes a form of recollection.
	www.quodlibet.net /pound-repetition.shtml (3517 words)

	Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Plato himself was aware of the problems involved with the Forms, and severely criticises his own doctrine in the Parmenides, to the extent that it is still a matter of dispute whether or not the later Plato actually remained true to his convictions.
		For Plato himself Forms are innate, and have to be re-activated through dialectic and recollection.
		In those passages where Plato expounds his views in the most explicit way, concept formation is nothing else than the reminiscence of a universal term, or a Form, that was slumbering in our mind from our birth.
	lgxserver.uniba.it /lei/filmed/rec243.htm (563 words)

	O'Keefe's comments on Julia Annas, "Platonic Ethics, Old and New"
		She wants to rouse us from our developmental slumbers by drawing our attention to the very different way Plato was read by the group of thinkers we nowadays label the ‘Middle Platonists.’ Her book succeeds marvelously in that task—it has already opened debate on the wide range of issues in Plato she addresses.
		The metaphysical doctrine that the transcendent form of Beauty is the cause of whatever beauty particular beautiful things instantiate, and the associated psychology of erôs as desire for this form, has at least two ethical consequences.
		Annas points out this similarity in Platonic and Stoic metaphysics, but then she says that this “is also manifestly not why they can agree so extensively in ethics.
	www2.gsu.edu /~phltso/Annas-comments.html (3842 words)

	II. Of the Righteous [The Doctrine of the Redeemed Earth] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This doctrine is crucial both to a proper understanding of Christian eschatology and to a proper appreciation of the Christian hope.
		The doctrine of the redeemed earth has not been universally accepted by Christian theologians. In order to more fully expound the Biblical evidence for this doctrine, I want to state and answer three of the most significant objections to it.
		The theology of redemption requires the rejection of the doctrine that the earth is annihilated at the last day.Many passages in the New Testament teach that creation as a whole has been redeemed and reconciled to God (Col. 1:15-23; Eph.
	www.vor.org /truth/rbst/escatology14.html (5432 words)

	Whole Version - Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Early Church
		The doctrines of substitutional atonement, resurrection of the body, native depravity, and endless punishment, are not listed in the earliest creeds or formulas.
		The doctrines of Prayer for the Dead, and of Christ Preaching to those in Hades, and of Mitigation (relief, alleviation, etc.) were humane teachings of the primitive Christians that were subsequently discarded.
		The doctrine of Mitigation was, that for some good deed on earth, the damned in hell would occasionally be let out on a respite or furlough, and have cessation of torment.
	www.members.cox.net /tmurr10/updwhole.html (13835 words)

	Platonic IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		So, it is the case that studies of the development of crisis of the West[1] dedicate whole chapters to Platonism and to Aristotle reminding the readers that much of our IT-design theories are ignoring the political and spiritual dimensions of design.
		To make things more difficult in the appreciation of this paper, "Platonic IT" may be interpreted as analog to platonic love, which in the superficially popular version is equated to a sort of nominal love without concretion and consequences.
		What appears here is the well-knows priority established by Platon for mathematics, geometry and astronomy, and the religious soul over the body and other empirical knowledge, as well as the diffidence towards aesthetics as represented by the so-called imitative arts.
	www.informatik.umu.se /~kivanov/PlatoIT.html (17584 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Meynell denies that empiricist or relativist attacks on this more or less Platonic reasoning have clearly succeeded, and argues that those attacks depend upon the very norms which they seek to relativize or reduce.
		Unfortunately Coward thinks it important to describe the relevant memory (memories?) as "a priori"(p.25), and thus comparable to the "memory" of the slave boy in the Meno who is used to explicate and verify the Platonic doctrine of recollection.
		This Platonic disposition leaves Augustine with the problem of accounting for the use of poetry, parable and story in the scriptures.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9308-lillegard-grace.txt (2760 words)

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