Plato and Shafer-Landaus Points of View
I agree with Plato’s argument on unforgetting things we have to the natural ability to know. In his fourth dialogue, Plato presents “Meno,” which critically outlines ideologies related to virtue, knowledge, and innateness of knowledge. While pursuing this, Plato suggests that virtue is a type of knowledge and concludes that virtue can be taught. However, Meno presents his paradox by arguing that either we know something or we do not—and if we know something, then there is no need to explore it further; however, if we do not know about it, then we can inquire since we cannot look for the unknown (Plato, 2002). As argued in this dialogue, Plato presented knowledge as innate based on the concept of the soul’s immortality. In this, Plato emphasizes the need to withhold knowledge within the soul to make learning in the next life easier. This is clearly demonstrated by the slave boy experiment, which he arguably presented as boys’ innate prior mathematical knowledge.
One of Shafer-Landau’s key arguments is presented as divine command theory, which perceives right or wrong as benchmarked by God. In arguing this theory, Shafer-Landau posits that ultimately defining good and evil should be based on God’s perspective—rather, something pleasing to God should be deemed as good (Shafer-Landau, 2004). Therefore, God’s judgment has high relevance, thus, presenting subjectivism ideologies in this theory. As argued against by Shafer-Landau, divine command theory is refuted by the concept of a good reason for why God will do the way he does. To build on this, it can be argued that if God solely defines good and evil, the elemental concept of a good reason for believing in the morality of an act is unrealized. From a personal perceptive, Shafer-Landau adequately presents arguments in the podcast to allow the reader to connect innately with the theories with absolute comprehension.
References
Plato. (2002). Five Dialogues. Hackett Publishing Company.
Shafer-Landau, R. (2004). Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? Oxford University Press.
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Question 
Plato thinks we have to ‘unforget’ something we have a natural ability to know, given the nature of the forms and the nature of our intellectual soul. What do you think? Did he prove his case with the geometry experiment?
Plato and Shafer-Landaus Points of View
What do you think of Shafer-Landau’s arguments, now that you’ve heard him defend himself on a podcast?