Plato and the Divided Self (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Barney, Rachel

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Produktbeschreibung

Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a lion-like 'spirited part' and an 'appetitive' part likened to a many-headed beast. How these parts interact, how exactly each shapes our agency and how they are affected by phenomena like eros and education is complicated and controversial. The essays in this book investigate how the theory evolves over the whole of Plato's work, including the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus, and how it was developed further by important Platonists such as Galen, Plutarch and Plotinus. They will be of interest to a wide audience in philosophy and classics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139211048
• Artikelnr.: 38280205

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements and notes; Editors' introduction Rachel Barney, Tad
Brennan and Charles Brittain; Part I. Transitions to Tripartition: 1.
Enkrateia and the partition of the soul in the Gorgias Louis-André Dorion;
2. From the Phaedo to the Republic: philosophers, non-philosophers, and the
possibility of virtue Iakovos Vasiliou; 3. The soul as a one and a many:
Republic 436a8-439d9 Eric Brown; Part II. Moral Psychology and the Parts of
the Soul: 4. Erôs before and after tripartition Frisbee Sheffield; 5.
Speaking with the same voice as reason: personification in Plato's
psychology Rachana Kamtekar; 6. Psychic contingency in the Republic
Jennifer Whiting; 7. Curbing one's appetites in Plato's Republic James
Wilberding; 8. The nature and object of the spirited part of the soul Tad
Brennan; 9. How to see an unencrusted soul: Republic X 611b-612a Raphael
Woolf; Part III. Developments in Late Plato: 10. Pictures and passions in
the Philebus and Timaeus Jessica Moss; 11. The cognition of appetite in
Plato's Timaeus Hendrik Lorenz; 12. Soul and state in Plato's laws Luc
Brisson; Part IV. Parts of Soul in the Platonic Tradition: 13. Plutarch on
the division of the soul Jan Opsomer; 14. Galen and the tripartite soul
Mark Schiefsky; 15. Plotinus and Plato on soul and action Eyjólfur K.
Emilsson.