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The Embodied Self in Plato: Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus
Contributor(s): Karatzoglou, Orestis (Author)

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 ISBN: 311073740X     ISBN-13: 9783110737400
Publisher: de Gruyter
OUR PRICE: $131.09  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - General
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.08 lbs) 200 pages
 
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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.
 
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