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Knowing Persons - A Study in Plato (Paperback, New edition)
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Knowing Persons - A Study in Plato (Paperback, New edition)
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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 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. This study argues that Plato's
analysis of personhood is intended to cohere with his two-world
metaphysics as well as a radical separation of knowledge and
belief. Gerson demonstrates that Plato's account of persons plays a
key role not just in his theory of mind, but in his theory of
knowledge, his metaphysics, and his ethics. A proper understanding
of Plato's account of persons must therefore place it in the
context of his doctrines in these areas. Knowing Persons fills a
significant gap by showing the way to such an understanding.
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