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Logos and Psyche in the Phaedo

Logos and Psyche in the Phaedo

Bailey, Jesse I.

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1498541305
ISBN13: 9781498541305
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 19 2018
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers an original interpretation and close reading of Plato's Phaedo, focusing on the relation between logos and the soul in order to illuminate the ethical and political dimensions of philosophy as care of the soul. Jesse I. Bailey argues that the central issue of the dialogue is the relation between logos and the defining activity of the soul. The soul, in accord with logos, gathers the multiplicity of phenomena into the intelligible wholes of experience. This definitive activity also applies to the soul itself, as the soul gathers itself to itself in logos. Ethical living demands the development of a harmonious unity in the self through this activity. Thus, the book argues that the traditional pillars of Platonism--the immortality of the soul and the Forms--are presented not as fully-developed theories to be accepted by the reader whole cloth, but rather as provocations for thought.

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