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Book Synopsis The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought by : Chad Jorgenson
Download or read book The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought written by Chad Jorgenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato's later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.
Book Synopsis The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought by : Chad Jorgenson
Download or read book The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought written by Chad Jorgenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Chad Jorgenson challenges the view that for Plato the good life is one of pure intellection, arguing that his last writings increasingly insist on the capacity of reason to impose measure on our emotions and pleasures. Starting from an account of the ontological, epistemological, and physiological foundations of the tripartition of the soul, he traces the increasing sophistication of Plato's thinking about the nature of pleasure and pain and his developing interest in sciences bearing on physical reality. These theoretical shifts represent a movement away from a conception of human happiness as a purification or flight of the soul from the sensible to the intelligible, as in the Phaedo, towards a focus on the harmony of the individual as a psychosomatic whole under the hegemonic power of reason.
Book Synopsis Plato and the Divided Self by : Rachel Barney
Download or read book Plato and the Divided Self written by Rachel Barney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Book Synopsis The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo by : John Palmer
Download or read book The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo written by John Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Plato's Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul's immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis. Unlike the argument for the soul's immortality in the Phaedrus, which does seem intended as a proof, the Phaedo arguments are proceeding toward the first principles that could serve as the basis for a proof - the most important being an account of the soul's own essential nature. This study attends to the substantial progress the Phaedo makes toward such an account. It also considers Socrates' epistemic situation in the dialogue and the problem of whether his confidence in the face of death is misplaced if his arguments have not been proofs before considering how the concluding myth draws together several of the dialogue's main themes.
Book Synopsis Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy by : Brad Inwood
Download or read book Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy written by Brad Inwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Greek and Roman theories about the relationship of soul and body in the centuries after Aristotle.
Book Synopsis Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works by : Dominic J. O'Meara
Download or read book Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates Plato's cosmology to his political philosophy by means of new interpretations of his Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws.
Book Synopsis Plato and the Body by : Coleen P. Zoller
Download or read book Plato and the Body written by Coleen P. Zoller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques. For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato’s metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace. Coleen P. Zoller is Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University.
Book Synopsis The Teleology of Action in Plato's Republic by : Andrew Payne
Download or read book The Teleology of Action in Plato's Republic written by Andrew Payne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many discussions of ancient philosophy, teleology is acknowledged as an important theme. How do we act for a particular end or purpose? One common answer describes humans as acting with the intention of achieving a goal. A person selects particular actions with the thought that these actions will lead to that goal. Andrew Payne accepts that this is one good answer to our question but proposes that it is not the only one. In Plato's Republic, Socrates appeals to a different understanding of how humans act for the sake of ends as they live together in political communities and pursue knowledge. As they carry out activities that are necessary for human flourishing, their actions can produce unintended results that signal the full completion of human capacities. For example, performing the actions of a just individual can help promote the establishment of a just society as an unintended result. Such unintended results qualify as ends or purposes of human action. This volume fully explores this functional teleology of action in Plato's Republic.
Book Synopsis Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues by : Andrea Nightingale
Download or read book Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues written by Andrea Nightingale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-body Debate by : Erik Nis Ostenfeld
Download or read book Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-body Debate written by Erik Nis Ostenfeld and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic by : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic written by Giovanni R. F. Ferrari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Book Synopsis The Embodied Self in Plato by : Orestis Karatzoglou
Download or read book The Embodied Self in Plato written by Orestis Karatzoglou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies by : Marc Cortez
Download or read book Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies written by Marc Cortez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the relationship between Christology and theological anthropology through the lens provided by the theology of Karl Barth and the mind/body discussion in contemporary philosophy of mind. It thus comprises two major sections. The first develops an understanding of Karl Barth's theological anthropology focusing on three major facets: (1) the centrality of Jesus Christ for any real understanding of human persons; (2) the resources that such a christologically determined view of human nature has for engaging in interdisciplinary discourse; and (3) the ontological implications of this approach for understanding the mind/body relationship. The second part draws on this theological foundation to consider the implications that Christological anthropology has for analyzing and assessing several prominent ways of explaining the mind/body relationship. Specifically, it interacts with two broad categories of theories: 'nonreductive' forms of physicalism and 'holistic' forms of dualism. After providing a basic summary of each, the book applies the insights gained from Barth's anthropology to ascertain the extent to which the two approaches may be considered christologically adequate.
Book Synopsis A Brief History of the Soul by : Stewart Goetz
Download or read book A Brief History of the Soul written by Stewart Goetz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the brain sciences for the soul's existence Includes coverage of theories from key figures, such as Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes Unique in combining the history of ideas and the development of a powerful case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul
Book Synopsis Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy by : M. F. Burnyeat
Download or read book Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy written by M. F. Burnyeat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Book Synopsis Psychology and Ontology in Plato by : Luca Pitteloud
Download or read book Psychology and Ontology in Plato written by Luca Pitteloud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together contributions from prominent scholars to discuss new approaches to Plato’s philosophy, especially in the burgeoning fields of Platonic ontology and psychology. Topics such as the relationship between mind, soul and emotions, as well as the connection between ontology and ethics are discussed through the analyses of dialogues from Plato’s middle and late periods, such as the Republic, Symposium, Theaetetus, Timaeus and Laws. These works are being increasingly studied both as precursors for Aristotelian philosophy and in their own right, and the analyses included in this volume reveal some new interpretations of topics such as Plato’s attitude towards artistic imagination and the possibility of speaking of a teleology in Plato. Focusing on hot topics in the area, Psychology and Ontology in Plato provides a good sense of what is happening in Platonic scholarship worldwide and will be of interest to academic researchers and teachers interested in ancient philosophy, ontology and philosophical psychology.
Download or read book Plato's Academy written by Paul Kalligas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.
