L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle

Karfík, Filip

doi:10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.572

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“…The activity of ordering and maintaining described here is attributed by Plato ultimately to the world‐soul. Karfik (2014) argues that there is similar evidence pertaining to Empedocles. He argues that when Plato says that the Demiurge bestowed love ( philia ) on the world’s body ( Timaeus 32b–c), he is referring to Empedocles.…”

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“…He argues that when Plato says that the Demiurge bestowed love ( philia ) on the world’s body ( Timaeus 32b–c), he is referring to Empedocles. In the Statesman , when Plato rejects the view that opposing motions in the cosmos can be explained by a pair of gods whose thoughts are contrary to other (270a), Karfik (2014) also discerns a reference to Empedocles’s pair of love and strife.…”

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Self‐Motion and Cognition: Plato's Theory of the Soul

Campbell¹

2021

The Southern J of Philosophy

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I argue that Plato believes that the soul must be both the principle of motion and the subject of cognition because it moves things specifically by means of its thoughts. I begin by arguing that the soul moves things by means of such acts as examination and deliberation and that this view is developed in response to Anaxagoras. I then argue that every kind of soul enjoys a kind of cognition, with even plant souls having a form of Aristotelian discrimination (krisis), and that there is therefore no completely unintelligent, evil soul in the cosmos that can explain disorderly motions; as a result, the soul is not the principle of all motion but only motion in the cosmos after it has been ordered by the Demiurge.

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Section: The Different Kinds Of Soulmentioning

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Section: The Different Kinds Of Soulmentioning

confidence: 99%