Editing Pre-existence (section)

==Ancient Greek thought==
{{See|Metempsychosis}}
[[Plato]] believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which tied in with his [[innatism]]. He thought that we are born with knowledge from a previous life that is subdued at birth and must be relearned. He saw all attainment of knowledge not as acquiring new information, but as remembering previously known information.<ref>{{cite book | last=Givens | first=Terryl L. | title=When Souls Had Wings: Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought | publisher=OUP USA | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-19-991685-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ewVDAAAQBAJ | access-date=March 18, 2021 | pages=31–33}}</ref>