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9780521899666

Plato and the Divided Self

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521899666

  • ISBN10:

    0521899664

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-03-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse and yet somehow also one divided into a fully human 'rational' part, a lion-like 'spirited part' and an 'appetitive' part likened to a many-headed beast. How these parts interact, how exactly each shapes our agency and how they are affected by phenomena like eros and education is complicated and controversial. The essays in this book investigate how the theory evolves over the whole of Plato's work, including the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus, and how it was developed further by important Platonists such as Galen, Plutarch and Plotinus. They will be of interest to a wide audience in philosophy and classics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and notes
Editors' introduction
Transitions to Tripartition
Enkrateia and the partition of the soul in the Gorgias
From the Phaedo to the Republic: philosophers, non-philosophers, and the possibility of virtue
The soul as a one and a many: Republic 436a8-439d9
Moral Psychology and the Parts of the Soul
Erôs before and after tripartition
Speaking with the same voice as reason: personification in Plato's psychology
Psychic contingency in the Republic
Curbing one's appetites in Plato's Republic
The nature and object of the spirited part of the soul
How to see an unencrusted soul: Republic X 611b-612a
Developments in Late Plato
Pictures and passions in the Philebus and Timaeus
The cognition of appetite in Plato's Timaeus
Soul and state in Plato's laws
Parts of Soul in the Platonic Tradition
Plutarch on the division of the soul
Galen and the tripartite soul
Plotinus and Plato on soul and action
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