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The Embodied Soul in Plato’s Later Thought

By Chad Jorgenson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
1107174120, 9781107174122
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15303662 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
Edition
1st
Pages
226\230
Time added
2018-04-26 21:36:27
Greek & Roman;Philosophy;Politics & Social Science

Description

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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