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Knowing Persons : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199257638 : 0199257639 : 10 Apr 2003 : Lloyd Gerson offers his study of Plato's account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. His book locates Plato's psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal, and that they reflect many of the conflicting states of the sensible world.Read More

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    Knowing Persons is an original study of Plato's account of personhood. For Plato, embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal. The ideal person is a knower. Hence, the lives of embodied persons need to be understood according to Plato's metaphysics of imagery. For Gerson, Plato's account of embodied personhood is not accurately conflated with Cartesian dualism. Plato's dualism is more appropriately seen in the contrast between the ideal disembodied person and the embodied one than in the contrast between mind or soul and body.

  • 0199257639
  • 9780199257638
  • Lloyd P. Gerson
  • 16 January 2003
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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