Socrates and the Slave Boy

Theory of recollection is probably plato's most famous doctrine, apart from the theory of forms. It turns up here in the meno and occasionally elsewhere, especially in his dialogue the fido. Some people don't want to take the mythic story about the soul very seriously. They think that plato is just trying to set out what we would now call a theory of innate knowledge. i know what you're thinking, as promised. That does sound pretty zanymeno isn't immediately convinced either. So socrates proceeds to demonstrate his theory in one of the more famous scenes in the platonic dialogues. He summons a slave boy whose only intellectual qualification is that he knows g