The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought

• Author(s): Chad Jorgenson,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_10: 1107174120
  ISBN_13: 9781107174122
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / General , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Religion / Theology ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Thymos -- The Unity of Thymos -- Thymos and Honor in Homeric Epic -- Philotimia and Philonikia -- The Good Horse -- Chapter 2 Appetitive Soul -- Pleasure and Pain as Impurities of the Soul -- The Hedonist's Dilemma -- The Ontological Foundations of Appetitive Soul -- Chapter 3 Rational Soul -- The Immortal Soul and the Self -- The Soul as Daimon -- Godlikeness and the Cognition of Becoming -- Chapter 4 Measuring Pleasure -- A Science of Measuring Pleasure -- The Origins of False Pleasures -- Medicine and the Measurement of Pleasure -- Chapter 5 Eudaimonia -- The Mixed Life and the Good -- The Teleological Critique of Pleasure -- Intellectual Pleasure and the Divine Life -- Chapter 6 The Political Sphere -- The Philosopher and the Polis -- The City as Incubator of Virtue -- The Political Arena -- Philosophy and Political Action -- Chapter 7 Eschatology -- The Undiscovered Country -- The Mirror of the Soul -- Gorgias -- Phaedo -- Republic -- The Immanent Eschatology of the Timaeus -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Editions of Greek Texts -- Plato -- Other Ancient Authors Cited -- Secondary Literature -- Index Locorum -- General Index