Josh Wilburn

The Political Soul (eBook, PDF)

Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy, focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation over the course of his career. Spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato, in the sense that it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form relationships with one another, interact politically, and cooperate together in and protect their communities. Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place. Moreover, as spirit is the political part of the soul in this sense, two social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his works--namely, how to educate citizens properly in virtue and how to maintain unity and stability in political communities--cannot be addressed and resolved, on his view, without proper attention to the spirited aspects of human psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192606402
• Artikelnr.: 62838634

Autorenporträt

Josh Wilburn is an Associate Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. He.received his B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I
* 1: Tripartition and the Spirited 'Part' of the Soul
* 2: Spirited Motivation and the Two Faces of Thumos
* 3: The Social and Political Nature of Spirit
* Part II
* 4: Political Psychology in the Great Speech of the Protagoras
* 5: Spirited Motivation and the Novelty of Reason: Plato's Early
Dialogues
* Part III
* 6: Musical and Gymnastic Education in the Republic
* 7: Oikeion and Allotrion in the City and Soul: The Psychology of
Virtue and Civic Unity
* 8: The Spirited Part of the Soul in the Timaeus
* Part IV
* 9: Spirited Psychology and Civic Temperament in the Statesman
* 10: Politics, Education, and Spirit in the Laws