1. Souls and Persons -- 2. Immortality and Persons in Phaedo -- 3. Divided Persons: Republic and Phaedrus -- 4. Knowledge and Belief in Republic -- 5. Theaetetus: What is Knowledge? -- 6. Personhood in the Later Dialogues
Summary
Lloyd Gerson offers an original new study of Plato's account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. His book locates Plato's psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-291) and indexes