02107cam a2200301Ii 4500 on1226172683 OCoLC ta 210614s2021 gw b 001 0 eng d 9783110737400 (hbk.) 311073740X (hbk.) (OCoLC)1226172683 B398.S45 K37 2021 Karatzoglou, Orestis. The embodied self in Plato : Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus / Orestis Karatzoglou. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021] xxii, 178 p. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 120 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Plato. Phaedo. Plato. Republic. Plato. Timaeus. Self (Philosophy) Human body (Philosophy) Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 120. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 B398.S45 K37 2021 PNLIB21063046 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 3233 3233