Lloyd P Gerson

Knowing Persons

A Study in Plato

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Produktbeschreibung

Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery. For Gerson, Plato's account of embodied personhood is not accurately conflated with Cartesian dualism. Plato's dualism is more appropriately seen in the contrast between the ideal disembodied person and the embodied one than in the contrast between mind or soul and body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780199257638
• ISBN-10: 0199257639
• Artikelnr.: 21193400

Autorenporträt

(Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Souls and Persons
1: Souls and Persons
2: Socrates and Self-Knowledge
3: Protagoras and the Power of Knowledge
2. Immortality and Persons in Phaedo
1: The Structure of the Argument for Immortality
2: The Cyclical Argument
3: The Recollection Argument
4: The Affinity Argument
5: The Objections of Simmias and Cebes
6: Socrates' Reply to Cebes and the Argument from Exclusion of Opposites
3. Divided Persons: Republic and Phaedrus
2: Tripartition and Immortality in Republic X
3: Phaedrus
4. Knowledge and Belief in Republic
1: Knowledge Versus Belief
2: The Form of the Good
3: The Divided Line and the Allegory of the Cave
5. Theaetetus: What is Knowledge?
1: Interpreting Theaetetus
2: Knowledge is not Sense-Perception
3: Knowledge is not True Belief
4: Knowledge is not True Belief with an Account
6. Personhood in the Later Dialogues
1: Timaeus
2: Philebus
3: Laws
7. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography