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Author : Chad Jorgenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 1316626369
Author : Chad Jorgenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107174122
Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato's later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.
Author : Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899666
Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108944236
This study of Plato's Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul's immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis. Unlike the argument for the soul's immortality in the Phaedrus, which does seem intended as a proof, the Phaedo arguments are proceeding toward the first principles that could serve as the basis for a proof - the most important being an account of the soul's own essential nature. This study attends to the substantial progress the Phaedo makes toward such an account. It also considers Socrates' epistemic situation in the dialogue and the problem of whether his confidence in the face of death is misplaced if his arguments have not been proofs before considering how the concluding myth draws together several of the dialogue's main themes.
Author : Brad Inwood,James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485821
Explores Greek and Roman theories about the relationship of soul and body in the centuries after Aristotle.
Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107183278
This book relates Plato's cosmology to his political philosophy by means of new interpretations of his Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws.
Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470832
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 : Orestis Karatzoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732498
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 : Andrew Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192536693
In many discussions of ancient philosophy, teleology is acknowledged as an important theme. How do we act for a particular end or purpose? One common answer describes humans as acting with the intention of achieving a goal. A person selects particular actions with the thought that these actions will lead to that goal. Andrew Payne accepts that this is one good answer to our question but proposes that it is not the only one. In Plato's Republic, Socrates appeals to a different understanding of how humans act for the sake of ends as they live together in political communities and pursue knowledge. As they carry out activities that are necessary for human flourishing, their actions can produce unintended results that signal the full completion of human capacities. For example, performing the actions of a just individual can help promote the establishment of a just society as an unintended result. Such unintended results qualify as ends or purposes of human action. This volume fully explores this functional teleology of action in Plato's Republic.
Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780521839631
This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402770529
"Julia Annas provides an incisive exploration of the many-sided and elusive genius whose wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas continue to challenge, provoke, and inspire us today"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Paul Kalligas,Chloe Balla,Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani,Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426442
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.
Author : Orestis Karatzoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732450
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 : H.J. Blumenthal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401029896
This book is a revised version, with some omissions, of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation submitted in 1963: I fear that it still bears marks of its origins. The dissertation itself was the result of an earlier scheme to identify the sources of Plotinus' psychological doctrines. In the course of this work it soon became evident that it was not sufficient1y clear what these doctrines were. Students of Plotinus have tended to concentrate on the higher regions of his world, and there is still no satisfactory treatment of his doctrines of the embodied soul. It is the purpose of this book to provide a fairly extensive survey of these doctrines. It does not claim to be exhaustive. Nor does it claim to add a large body of new knowledge, since over so wide a field many points have been touched on by others, if only in passing. But I hope that it may remove some misconceptions, and bring the details of Plotinus' theories into sharper focus. It had been my intention to add an introduction - mainly for the benefit of non-specialist readers - on the psychology of Plotinus' predecessors. In the meantime the Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy has appeared, and the reader who wants information on this subject may convenient1y be referred to the relevant parts of the late Professor Merlan's chapters on the predeces sors of Plotinus.
Author : Marc Cortez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567479365
The book explores the relationship between Christology and theological anthropology through the lens provided by the theology of Karl Barth and the mind/body discussion in contemporary philosophy of mind. It thus comprises two major sections. The first develops an understanding of Karl Barth's theological anthropology focusing on three major facets: (1) the centrality of Jesus Christ for any real understanding of human persons; (2) the resources that such a christologically determined view of human nature has for engaging in interdisciplinary discourse; and (3) the ontological implications of this approach for understanding the mind/body relationship. The second part draws on this theological foundation to consider the implications that Christological anthropology has for analyzing and assessing several prominent ways of explaining the mind/body relationship. Specifically, it interacts with two broad categories of theories: 'nonreductive' forms of physicalism and 'holistic' forms of dualism. After providing a basic summary of each, the book applies the insights gained from Barth's anthropology to ascertain the extent to which the two approaches may be considered christologically adequate.