The Embodied Self in Plato: Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus: 120 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 120) - Softcover

Karatzoglou, Orestis

 
9783111122076: The Embodied Self in Plato: Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus: 120 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 120)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3111122077 ISBN 13: 9783111122076
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but also provides the subject of inquiry with the ability to actualize, to the extent possible, the ideal self. The Republic locates bodily desires and needs in the tripartite soul. Achievement of maximal unity is dependent upon successful training of the rational part of the soul, but the earlier curriculum of Books 2 and 3, which aims at instilling a pre-reflectively virtuous disposition in the lower parts of the soul, is a prerequisite for the advanced studies of Republic 7. In the Timaeus, the world soul is fashioned out of Being, Sameness, and Difference: an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus' Receptacle, the third ontological principle which emerges as the quasi-material component that provides each individual soul with the alloplastic capacity for psychological growth and alteration.

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Orestis Karatzoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3111122077
ISBN 13 
9783111122076
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
202
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