Sunday, February 3, 2013

Response to Gabrielle McNeice's "How Do We Learn..."

I agree completely with Gabrielle's post. I agree with her that the only things that cannot be taught are instinctual. Therefore, even if the soul that Plato was referring to was meant to represent instincts, as Ama suggested in her response to this post, (http://the-writing-junkie-school.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-do-we-learn-can-it-be-considered.html), I don't believe Geometry is something we know through instincts. I believe that although it is not very hard to grasp, it is still something that is learned through teaching, or observation. Therefore, I agree with Gabrielle that Socrates actually taught the slave geometry through his questions, whether he realized it or not. I do not believe that the slave recalled how to do geometry through his soul.

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