The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
ISBN-10
1107174120
ISBN-13
9781107174122
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 5th, 2018
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
4 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.40 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
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Advances our understanding of Plato's conception of human nature, particularly the interaction between body and soul, how reason affects emotions, pleasures, and desires, the nature of happiness, the role of politics in the good life, and the fate of the soul after death.
In this book, Chad Jorgenson challenges the view that for Plato the good life is one of pure intellection, arguing that his last writings increasingly insist on the capacity of reason to impose measure on our emotions and pleasures. Starting from an account of the ontological, epistemological, and physiological foundations of the tripartition of the soul, he traces the increasing sophistication of Plato''s thinking about the nature of pleasure and pain and his developing interest in sciences bearing on physical reality. These theoretical shifts represent a movement away from a conception of human happiness as a purification or flight of the soul from the sensible to the intelligible, as in the Phaedo, towards a focus on the harmony of the individual as a psychosomatic whole under the hegemonic power of reason.
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