Varieties of Platonic Innatism: An Introduction through Early Modern parallels
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13136/thau.v11i1.225Keywords:
Plato, innatism, recollection, knowledge, epistemologyAbstract
This article considers six types of Platonic Innatism and compares them to the nativisms of early modern writers. I first dismiss a type of innatism similar to the target of the first book of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding and then discuss four types of innatism that might be considered "live options" for the one Plato employs in his theory of recollection: a Kantian "constructivist" innatism, a Cartesian "dispositional" innatism, a Leibnizian "content" innatism, and a Malebranchian "transcendent" innatism. Finally, in closing, I discuss "condition innatism." Though this last position is frequently referenced in Platonic scholarship, I argue that the position is incoherent.
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