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Eros and Emergence

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Ever since Plato, philosophy has seen a profound link between knowledge and desire. Why does one desire at all, when it involves so much labor? Is motivation of learning a clue to the nature of knowledge? This link is particularly apparent in Plato's Meno, one of the most important loci for the Platonic doctrine of recollection. Socrates' interlocutor, Meno, poses a problem known as the "aporia of learning": "Why, on what lines will you look, Socrates, for a thing of whose nature you know nothing at all? Pray, what sort of thing, amongst those that you know not, will...