{"product_id":"the-embodied-self-in-plato-phaedo-republic-timaeus-paperback","title":"The Embodied Self in Plato: Phaedo - Republic - Timaeus - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOrestis Karatzoglou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The \u003cem\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e 7. In the \u003cem\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/em\u003e, the world soul is fashioned out of Being, Sameness, and Difference: an examination of the \u003cem\u003eSophist\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eParmenides\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that Difference is to be identified with the \u003cem\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/em\u003e' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrestis Karatzoglou\u003c\/strong\u003e, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749938331936,"sku":"9783111122076","price":28.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8f70b80f4f26412af328fed15fe9f4ee.webp?v=1779940701","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-embodied-self-in-plato-phaedo-republic-timaeus-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}