Taylor Chitty Plato’s Nativism as the Fall Blog

I feel that Plato’s idea of nativism falls under the concept of the fall. If man was inherently born with rational knowledge. Then the body forgot, after it went through the processes of entering the natural world instead of the spiritual world that it was formally at then this was a loss of knowledge that leads to a decline in the ability of man, therefore the fall. If man was born with the ability to understand and know absolute truth but cannot retain or remember the knowledge except through learning and experience than that shows a fall in man’s ability to understand the things around him. However the idea of regaining the truth through knowledge falls under the idea of redemption due to its regaining of power over ignorance from being changed and better by knowledge. The loss of the knowledge in the first place would still be a fall of man. If one was born with knowledge of the world around them then people would already have a level of experience before they could even go through the experiences that they understand i feel that if you look at this from a Christian perspective this would be an interesting concept by changing the idea of faith like a child because according to this concept the faith of a child could be understood just as deeply as that of an adult. Overall I feel from Plato’s perspective he would place this under the fall because of the loss of knowledge that everyone goes through.