Questions about learning and discovery have fascinated philosophers
from Plato onwards. Does the mind bring innate resources of its own
to the process of learning or does it rely wholly upon experience?
Plato was the first philosopher to give an innatist response to
this question and in doing so was to provoke the other major
philosophers of ancient Greece to give their own rival explanations
of learning. This book examines these theories of learning in
relation to each other. It presents an entirely different
interpretation of the theory of recollection which also changes the
way we understand the development of ancient philosophy after
Plato. The final section of the book compares ancient theories of
learning with the seventeenth-century debate about innate ideas,
and finds that the relation between the two periods is far more
interesting and complete than is usually supposed.
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