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The Embodied Self in Plato
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Orestis Karatzoglou
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-06 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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
Plato and the Divided Self
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Rachel Barney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Plato and the Body
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Coleen P. Zoller
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-11 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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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. Zo
The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Chad Jorgenson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato's later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.
Knowing Persons
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Lloyd P. Gerson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-16 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a know