The political soul : Plato on thumos, spirited motivation, and the city / Josh Wilburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilburn, Joshua J., 1982- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Plato--Criticism and interpretation.

Thymos (The Greek word).

Soul--Philosophy.

Soul.

Soul--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Plato on thumos, spirited motivation, and the city

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Josh Wilburn examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy. Focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation, he explores the social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his works.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I

1: Tripartition and the Spirited "Part" of the Soul

1. The Place of Tripartition in Plato's Thought

2. The Language of Tripartition

3. Psychic Parthood

2: Spirited Motivation and the Two Faces of Thumos

1. Traditional Survey of Spirited Motivations

2. Spirit and the Oikeion

3. A New Account of Spirited Motivation

3: The Social and Political Nature of Spirit

1. Thumos and Community in Early Greek Literature

2. Spirit, Appetite, and the Social Interpretation

3. Popular Culture and the Corruption of Spirit: Preliminary Sketch

4. The Problem of Moral Education

5. The Problem of Civic Strife

PART II

4: Political Psychology in the Great Speech of the Protagoras

1. The "Art" of Politics

2. Political "Virtue" and Spirited Nature

3. Democratic Moral Education

4. Plato's Skepticism

5: Spirited Motivation and the Novelty of Reason: Plato's Early Dialogues

1. Education and Pleonexia in Early Dialogues

2. Friends, Enemies, and Civic Strife in Early Dialogues

3. The "Third" Part of the Soul: A Case against Developmentalism

PART III

6: Musical and Gymnastic Education in the Republic

1. Early Education in the Kallipolis

2. Musical Education and Thumos

3. Musical Education and Reason

4. Gymnastic Education

7: Oikeion and Allotrion in the City and Soul: The Psychology of Virtue and Civic Unity

1. The War against Appetite

2. The Ally of Reason

3. Oikeios Logos

4. Civic Unity in the Kallipolis

8: The Spirited Part of the Soul in the Timaeus

1. The Mortal Soul

2. An Imagistic Account of Spirited Cognition

3. Cognition and Communication in the Republic

PART IV.

9: Spirited Psychology and Civic Temperament in the Statesman

1. The Myth of Cronus

2. Courage and Moderation

3. Statesmanship and Thumos

4. Political Psychology in Contemporary Greek Thought

10: Politics, Education, and Spirit in the Laws

1. Thumos and the Bipartite Soul

2. Courage and Civic Unity

3. Musical Education and the Drinking Party

4. Gymnastic Education in Magnesia

5. The Law.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-194723-7

0-19-260640-9

OCLC:

1281983480