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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