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Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato

By Lloyd P. Gerson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2003
ISBN
0199257639, 9780199257638
LCC
B395 .G37 2003
Open Library ID
OL3778078M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2573569 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
319\319
Topic
History
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

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 knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery. For Gerson, Plato's account of embodied personhood is not accurately conflated with Cartesian dualism. Plato's dualism is more appropriately seen in the contrast between the ideal disembodied person and the embodied one than in the contrast between mind or soul and body.

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