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1 online resource (x, 217 pages) |
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Cambridge classical studies |
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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The Origins of False PleasuresMedicine 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 |
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Secondary LiteratureIndex Locorum; General Index |
| Summary |
In this book, Chad Jorgenson challenges the view that for Plato the good life is one of pure intellection, arguing that his last writings increasingly insist on the capacity of reason to impose measure on our emotions and pleasures. Starting from an account of the ontological, epistemological, and physiological foundations of the tripartition of the soul, he traces the increasing sophistication of Plato's thinking about the nature of pleasure and pain and his developing interest in sciences bearing on physical reality. These theoretical shifts represent a movement away from a conception of human happiness as a purification or flight of the soul from the sensible to the intelligible, as in the Phaedo, towards a focus on the harmony of the individual as a psychosomatic whole under the hegemonic power of reason |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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Soul.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Soul
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316805633 |
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1316805638 |
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9781316795651 |
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1316795659 |
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