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>How did Plato use the immortality of the soul in order to ground scientific knowledge?

What do they want from me in this question? The scientific method didn't exist yet, and I know he believed in the soul being immortal but what does it have to do with knowledge about things?

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btw sorry for hw shitposting

>> No.7420222

platonic dualism linked with his theory of universals?
your soul being the one who recognizes universal and abstract forms, while your senses perceive their particular forms.
You could argue on how maths and geometrical shapes then have a universal form which you discover on earth thanks to your soul,it having a metaphysical understanding of said forms? I don't know , something like that

>> No.7420248

>>7420222
so scientific knowledge just refers to anything that can be learned?

>> No.7420300

The divided line allegory is the main thing I'm supposed to use in my answer.

>> No.7420363

>>7420300
Think of how Plato uses the divided line in relation to the soul, then of the city (Republic), then of the universe/matter (Timaeus).

Plato's characters frequently try to show that the universe holds structure.
When describing the universe Plato uses the Greek words Pan (the entire universe), Kosmos (Its ordered structure), and Ouranos (the heavens and its bodies).

Look at Plato's division of the Forms from the Receptacle.