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Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato
Lloyd P. Gerson
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Description for Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato
hardcover. Lloyd Gerson offers his 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 595. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery. For Gerson, Plato's account of embodied personhood is not accurately conflated with Cartesian dualism. Plato's dualism is more appropriately seen in the contrast between the ideal disembodied person and the embodied one than in the contrast between mind or soul and body. This study argues that Plato's analysis of personhood is intended to cohere with ... Read more
Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery. For Gerson, Plato's account of embodied personhood is not accurately conflated with Cartesian dualism. Plato's dualism is more appropriately seen in the contrast between the ideal disembodied person and the embodied one than in the contrast between mind or soul and body. This study argues that Plato's analysis of personhood is intended to cohere with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199257638
SKU
KSG0034204
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Ref
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Reviews for Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato
... for those scholars interested in the concepts of subjectivity, person, and human being in Plato's works, Knowing Persons is an excellent account and resource on these topics.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
... an interesting reading of Plato on persons and on knowledge.
Lesley Brown, Times Literary Supplement
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
... an interesting reading of Plato on persons and on knowledge.
Lesley Brown, Times Literary Supplement