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Visual aids to Lectures on: - Questions of the Self, - Narrative Construction of the Self, - The Ancient Greek Conception of the Self, - How to Read a Platonic Dialogue, and - The Self in Plato's Republic
16 maj 2022 · Plato conceives of the self as a knower. Hence, for Plato, the concepts of the self and knowledge are inextricably linked. This is because Plato’s concept of the self is practically constructed on the basis of his reflections on the nature of the rational soul as the highest form of cognition.
For Socrates, the self is synonymous with the immortal soul and he believed that an unexamined life is not worth living. Plato viewed the self as consisting of reason, passion, and physical appetite under the control of reason.
This article takes a closer look at what Plato’s dialogues tell us about the incorporeality of the soul as one of the well-established Platonic doctrines, on a par with the soul’s immortality and its self-moving nature.
1 The question of self-knowledge in Plato has been studied mostly attending to the early dialogues. The aim of this paper is to show that self-knowledge is a topic which is presented and developed in different ways in other dialogues.
“Soul” is said in many ways across its eleven- hundred- and- forty- three uses in the Platonic corpus. It is the principle of both life and self- motion. It is the seat of cognition. It is also the bearer of moral properties.
Laws, 895, where life and self-moving power are identified), the soul is undeniably connected with the world of genera-tion as the " source and beginning " of the motion which characterises everything belonging to that world. It does not seem likely that in the Phed7us Plato is using the con-ception-which appears in later dialogues-of a ...
