Philosophy’s song directly refers to her above conclusion—through her “teaching,” Boethius has learned to “recall” his inherent desire for goodness, which he shares with everything else in the universe. But this song is also another direct reference to Plato, who believed that the soul already has complete knowledge of everything before it enters the body, but needs to be reminded of that knowledge and forced to “recall” it through education (specifically, through philosophical dialogues). In fact, much of the opacity and confusion in this section of Boethius’s text comes from his attempt to closely follow Plato’s train of thought.