Psychology and Ontology in Plato

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pitteloud, Luca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Keeling, Evan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 139
• Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient.; Ontology.; Classical Philosophy.

This edited volume brings together contributions from prominent scholars to discuss new approaches to Plato's philosophy, especially in the burgeoning fields of Platonic ontology and psychology. Topics such as the relationship between mind, soul and emotions, as well as the connection between o...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Imagination for Philosophical Exercise in Plato's Republic: The Story of Gyges' ring and the Simile of the Sun
• Chapter 2. Dionysian Plato in the Symposium
• Chapter 3. Separation of Body and Soul in Plato's Phaedo: an Unprecedented Ontological Operation in the Affinity Argument
• Chapter 4. Plato and the 'Internal Dialogue': An Ancient Answer for a New Model of the Self
• Chapter 5. Pathos in the Theaetetus
• Chapter 6. The Analogy between Vice and Disease from the Republic to the Timaeus
• Chpater 7. Why is the World Soul Composed by Being, Sameness and Difference?
• Chpater 8. Can One Speak of Teleology In Plato?
• Chpater 9. Nomos: Logismós ton Epithymion. Plato's Laws and the (De)formation of Desires.