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The Embodied Self in Plato - Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus (Hardcover)
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The Embodied Self in Plato - Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a
hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of
a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the
indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any
scientific argument but also provides the subject of inquiry with
the ability to actualize, to the extent possible, the ideal self.
The Republic locates bodily desires and needs in the tripartite
soul. Achievement of maximal unity is dependent upon successful
training of the rational part of the soul, but the earlier
curriculum of Books 2 and 3, which aims at instilling a
pre-reflectively virtuous disposition in the lower parts of the
soul, is a prerequisite for the advanced studies of Republic 7. In
the Timaeus, the world soul is fashioned out of Being, Sameness,
and Difference: an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides
reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus'
Receptacle, the third ontological principle which emerges as the
quasi-material component that provides each individual soul with
the alloplastic capacity for psychological growth and alteration.
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