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THE EMBODIED SELF IN PLATO - ORESTIS KARATZOGLO...

This book argues that  rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance  the body contributes
constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that
the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but also
provides the subject of inquiry with the ability to actualize  to the extent possible  the
ideal self. The Republic locates bodily desires and needs in the tripartite soul. Achievement
of maximal unity is dependent upon successful training of the rational part of the soul  but
the earlier curriculum of Books 2 and 3  which aims at instilling a pre-reflectively virtuous
disposition in the lower parts of the soul  is a prerequisite for the advanced studies of
Republic 7. In the Timaeus  the world soul is fashioned out of Being  Sameness  and Difference:
an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified
with the Timaeus' Receptacle  the third ontological principle which emerges as the
quasi-material component that provides each individual soul with the alloplastic capacity for
psychological growth and alteration.

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