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The embodied self in Plato : Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus
- Title
- The embodied self in Plato : Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus / Orestis Karatzoglou.
- Author
- Karatzoglou, Orestis
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
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- Description
- xxii, 178 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 120
- Uniform Title
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 120.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8091
- ISBN
- 9783110737400
- 311073740X
- LCCN
- 2021931832
- OCLC
- 1226172683
- Author
- Karatzoglou, Orestis, author.
- Title
- The embodied self in Plato : Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus / Orestis Karatzoglou.
- Publisher
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 120Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 120.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783110732498
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8091