Socrates argued the soul’s immortality from innate knowledge

Evidence

Socrates, for example, offered four very rational arguments for the immortality of the soul: … Because babies possess some knowledge at birth without any prior experience, there must be a soul that existed prior to birth that conveys this information to newborns. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 355

Categorization

• XREF: The innate-knowledge argument parallels Plato’s Meno and connects to Chomsky’s nativism about language acquisition.