Knowing Persons - A Study in Plato

Zusatztext ... an interesting reading of Plato on persons and on knowledge. Klappentext 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! and that they reflect many of the conflicting states of the sensible world. For Plato! Gerson argues! philosophy is the means to recognizing one's true identity. Zusammenfassung Offers a study of Plato's account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. This book locates Plato's psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal, and that they reflect many of the conflicting states of the sensible world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 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 7. Concluding Remarks

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lloyd P. Gerson, Lloyd P. ( Gerson
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9780199288670
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928867-0
• Seiten: 320
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge