Plato's understanding of what the essence of knowledge.

Title: Plato's understanding of what the essence of knowledge.
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Plato's understanding of what the essence of knowledge.
PLATO AND NIETZSCHE When people are born, they do not know the difference between right and wrong. Plato is a philosopher who believes that things are inborn. It is to say that, when a human being is born his soul knows everything, but at the beginning, the mind is a tabular rasa (blank state). As he grows day by day, he recollects the knowledge from his soul. Before uniting with the body, this soul is …showed first 75 words of 1574 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1574 total…something as correct) when he did not already know? It is impossible. Knowledge is true belief. Nietzsche believes that the people can trust their sensations. There is not such a thing as truth because there is no good and evil on earth. Truth is the desire to power. REFERENCES 1.http://www.friesian.com/existent.htm 2.Rudiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. 3.George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God, Synopsis, 2000.

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