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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… body in the fashioning of the self in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. Even though it is usually argued that for Plato the real self is simply the soul and that the body is merely a hindrance toward realization of the ideal self, my analysis of these dialogues shows that the body may be …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
In the Phaedo at 96a-101c, Plato appears to be committed to the following three negative principles of causation: (1) the same cause cannot produce opposite effects; (2) opposite causes cannot produce the same effect; (3) an opposite cannot cause an opposite. Plato also appears to hold a further, …
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Fear and Death in Plato
… context of three dialogues--the <italic>Apology, Phaedo,</italic>, and <italic>Republic.</italic>
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Platonic Modes of Explanation
… really is. In Chapter 2, I argue that in the Phaedo, Plato regards teleological explanations as an unattainable ideal and favors a mode of explanation involving both Form and matter. In contrast to what traditional interpretations suggest, Plato does see matter as playing an integral role in …
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Plato's analogical thought
… in the Republic, the “second sailing” in the Phaedo, the “receptacle” (chōra) in the Timaeus, and the example of weaving in the Statesman reveals that even if the theory each elucidates is not explicitly concerned with analogy, the theories these images enable are structured by analogy. Thus, …
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Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato
… attitude towards death and the afterlife in the Phaedo. This interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato's ethics and epistemology.
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Recovering Leisure: Otium as the Basis of Education
… in the figure of Socrates, especially in Plato's Phaedo. This discussion is further expanded by Seneca's account of leisure in On the Shortness of Life. An extension of this portraiture follows by making direct liaisons with education, as the themes of the art of living and culture emerge. A full …
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Plato on soul and body
… detailed analysis of it in later dialogues. The Phaedo appears to offer a view of the soul as a simple immaterial entity wholly distinct from the body. Even within this dialogue, though, there are signs that this simple view of the soul is not adequate for Plato's moral and metaphysical concerns, …
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The Emergence of Divine Simplicity in Patristic Trinitarian Theology: Origen and the Distinctive Shape of the Ante-Nicene Status Quaestionis
… anticipated by Plato’s Republic and Phaedo respectively. In the apologists, divine simplicity emerged as a purely metaphysical doctrine. However, a richer interpretation of the doctrine is also available in ante-Nicene theology, as exemplified in Origen’s understanding of divine …
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Thinking Through the Phenomenon of Trust: A Philosophical Investigation
… I show that Socrates, in Plato's dialogue Phaedo, articulates the feeling of being entrusted with life, a feeling that one experiences as a call to existential responsibility, to proper "care for the soul." Further, Socrates enjoins his interlocutors to trust in logos as part of properly …
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The Limits of Philosophy: Plato's Sophist and Statesman
… Plato's treatment of misology, in the Phaedo, illustrates the problem and Plato's indirect means of addressing it. In the Statesman, due measure (external) and releative measure (internal) are mutually dependent capacities: relative measure presupposes due measure as this later is for …