the love of knowledge. One type of knowledge is propter quid, which ask the question why or how. In this paper, I

will demonstrate how Socrates, Hume and Aristotle, three well known philosophers, would explain how I acquired

this knowledge in relation to the principles of right and wrong.

Socrates is the first philosopher, I will discuss. Since Socrates did not write anything down, Socrates thinking is told

through his student, Plato, who wrote his teachers' thoughts. Socrates is an idealist who believes that things are in

born. Therefor he believed that before we are born our soul knows everything, but when we are born our mind is a

tabular rasa (blank slate). As we grow day by day, we recollect the knowledge from our soul.

... the soul, that is, the human mind, before it is united with the body, is aquatinted with the intelligible world or the

world of Forms. In this prior existence, the true knowledge. After its union with a human body, a person's mind

contains its knowledge deep in its memory. True knowledge in this world consists of remembering, in reminiscence

or recollection. What the mind or so

Hume does not believe certain knowledge is within our soul.

the technique of dialect or the Socratic method. (Stumpf 260)

He uses images to make his point. He felt that what is in our mind is mental images. "Aristotle's theory of

Hume is the second philosopher I will discuss. Hume's beliefs are different from Socrates. Hume believes that we

This is known as the theory of recollection. The theory of recollection is told through Plato in the Phaedo and the

recollection may explain why we often say that we had certain knowledge before we leaned it or heard it for the first

knowledge of related situations before you can decide if they are right or wrong. Hume's principles of cause and

the scientist who begins by looking at something, then repeats these sense experiences, and finally goes beyond

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