Argument Of Recollection

Phaedo of Elis, is encountered by Echecrates and urges Phaedo to tell him what happened during Socrates’ final hours before his death. Many of Socrates’ close friends and followers were present and were all interested in what Socrates had to say. It all begins when Socrates mentions that although suicide is adherently wrong, a philosopher should look forward to his death on earth. Socrates’ reason behind this is that the soul is immortal and the duty of a philosopher throughout his whole life is to train himself and detach his soul from the body. Socrates proposed three arguments that defended his reasoning that the soul was immortal and lived passed the death of the human body. The first argument that Socrates stated was the Argument

For me, learning is made through connections of different ideas, which were also created from different ideas coming together. I support my stance by stating that the human brain cannot remember everything, thus we cannot recollect everything. We learn through different connections in our brains. There is a certain amount of connections made in the brain and those connection dictate what we learn and remember. There is an infinite amount of ideas and a capped amount of connections that can occur in our brain, thus through this logic, recollection cannot be how we learn. Another stance that supports my statement is that our memories are affected by our different emotions and perspective. By knowing this, recollection is then brought into question about what is really remembered. Past knowledge cannot be trusted due to our brain not fully remembering and distorting our interpretation of the idea that we are trying to figure out. That is why we have cross-references in the court of law, but that still does not capture everything. Also, what if we are trying to figure out something that we do not know of? We cannot ask ourselves questions due to the fact that we do not know what we are trying to find. There would be no possible way of discovering the unknown, but by making connections through previous existing ideas we can discover new ideas purposely or even by