Plato and the divided self / [edited by] Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barney, Rachel, 1966- editor.

Brennan, Tad, 1962- editor.

Brittain, Charles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Plato & the Divided Self

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 erôs 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain

Enkrateia and the partition of the soul in the Gorgias / Louis-André Dorion

From the Phaedo to the Republic: Plato's tripartite soul and the possibility of non-philosophical virtue / Iakovos Vasiliou

The unity of the soul in Plato's Republic / Eric Brown

Speaking with the same voice as reason: personification in Plato's psychology / Rachana Kamtekar

The nature of the spirited part of the soul and its object / Tad Brennan

Curbing one's appetites in Plato's Republic / James Wilberding

How to see an unencrusted soul / Raphael Woolf

Psychic contingency in the Republic / Jennifer Whiting

Erôs before and after tripartition / Frisbee Sheffield

The cognition of appetite in Plato's Timaeus / Hendrik Lorenz

Pictures and passions in the Timaeus and Philebus / Jessica Moss

Soul and state in Plato's laws / Luc Brisson

Plutarch on the division of the soul / Jan Opsomer

Galen and the tripartite soul / Mark Schiefsky

Plotinus and Plato on soul and action / Eyólfur Kjalar Emilsson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-382) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22638-4

1-139-20952-3

1-280-87763-4

9786613718945

1-139-22237-6

1-139-21756-9

1-139-22408-5

1-139-21448-9

1-139-22065-9

0-511-97783-2

OCLC:

783176482