Plato And The Body

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470832

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Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf

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.

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470818

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Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf

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. “Zoller gives us a new way of going forward in Plato studies. Her reading of the Platonic conception of embodiment frees it from the negative associations of the past. Plato and the Body will radically shift the scholarly conversation. The book is truly an exhilarating read.” — Anne-Marie Schultz, author of Plato’s Socrates as Narrator: A Philosophical Muse

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438470827

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Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

Author : Sara Brill
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253008916

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Plato on the Limits of Human Life by Sara Brill Pdf

“A book that is an ambitious, well-researched and provocative scholarly reflection on soul in the Platonic corpus.” —Polis By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good political institutions against the threat of the soul’s excess. Brill’s sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies in Plato’s dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between city and soul. “Sara Brill takes on at least two significant issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of the soul, and especially the language of immortality in its description, and the relationship between politics and psychology. She treats each one of these topics in a fresh and nuanced way. Her writing is beautiful and fluid.” —Marina McCoy, Boston College

Author : Ivan Miroshnikov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004367296

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The Gospel of Thomas and Plato by Ivan Miroshnikov Pdf

In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov offers the first systematic discussion of the Platonist impact on the Gospel of Thomas, arguing that Platonism is indispensable to making sense of those sayings that have long remained exegetical cruces.

Author : Erik Nis Ostenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Brain
ISBN : UOM:39015028478686

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Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-body Debate by Erik Nis Ostenfeld Pdf

Author : Luca Pitteloud,Evan Keeling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030046545

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Psychology and Ontology in Plato by Luca Pitteloud,Evan Keeling Pdf

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.

Author : Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899666

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Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain Pdf

Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190639730

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The Oxford Handbook of Plato by Gail Fine Pdf

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues, all serving several functions at once: they survey the current academic landscape; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato differs in two main ways from the first edition. First, six leading scholars of ancient philosophy have contributed entirely new chapters: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno; Luca Castagnoli on the Phaedo; Susan Sauvé Meyer on the Laws; and David Sedley on Plato's theology. This new edition therefore covers both dialogues and topics in more depth than the first edition did. Secondly, most of the original chapters have been revised and updated, some in small, others in large, ways.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985288915

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Phaedo by Plato Pdf

After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the beloved disciple. The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.

Author : Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319785479

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Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle by Marcelo D. Boeri,Yasuhira Y. Kanayama,Jorge Mittelmann Pdf

This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece. It collects essays that deal with different but interconnected aspects of that unified picture of our mental life shared by all Ancient philosophers who thought of the soul as an immaterial substance. The papers present theoretical discussions on moral and psychological issues ranging from Socrates to Aristotle, and beyond, in connection with modern psychology. Coverage includes moral learning and the fruitfulness of punishment, human motivation, emotions as psychic phenomena, and more. Some of these topics directly stemmed from the Socratic dialectical experience and its tragic outcome, whereas others found their way through a complex history of refinements, disputes, and internal critique. The contributors present the gradual unfolding of these central themes through a close inspection of the relevant Ancient texts. They deliver a wide-ranging survey of some central and mutually related topics. In the process, readers will learn new approaches to Platonic and Aristotelian psychology and action theory. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in Ancient philosophy. Any scholar with a general interest in the history of ideas will also find it a valuable resource.

Author : Chad Jorgenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107174122

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The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought by Chad Jorgenson Pdf

Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato's later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.

Author : Orestis Karatzoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732450

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The Embodied Self in Plato by Orestis Karatzoglou Pdf

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.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:49015002793470

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Aristotle's On the Soul by Aristotle Pdf

In this timeless and profound inquiry, Aristotle presents a view of the psyche that avoids the simplifications both of the materialists and those who believe in the soul as something quite distinct from body. On the Soul also includes Aristotle's idiosyncratic and influential account of light and colors. On Memory and Recollection continues the investigation of some of the topics introduced in On the Soul. Sachs's fresh and jargon-free approach to the translation of Aristotle, his lively and insightful introduction, and his notes and glossaries, all bring out the continuing relevance of Aristotle's thought to biological and philosophical questions.

Author : Pauliina Remes,Juha Sihvola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402085963

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Ancient Philosophy of the Self by Pauliina Remes,Juha Sihvola Pdf

Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, “What is self?” Some of them have even argued that there is no such thing at all. This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptualised in antiquity. How did the ancients understand what it is that I am, fundamentally, as an acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others like and unlike me? The authors hi- light the attempts in ancient philosophical sources to grasp the evasive character of the specifically human presence in the world. They also describe how the ancient philosophers understood human agents as capable of causing changes and being affected in and by the world. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which the ancients conceived of human beings as subjects of reasoning and action, as well as responsible individuals in the moral sphere and in their relations to other people. The themes of persistence, identity, self-examination and self-improvement recur in many of these essays. The articles of the collection combine systematic and historical approaches to ancient sources that range from Socrates to Plotinus and Augustine.