The Embodied Self in Plato : : Phaedo – Republic – Timaeus / / Orestis Karatzoglou.
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 sub...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXII, 178 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Phaedo -- 2 Republic -- 3 Timaeus -- 4 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110732450 9783110750720 9783110750706 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754056 9783110753813 |
ISSN: | 1868-4785 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110732450 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Orestis Karatzoglou. |