Responsibility, Causality, and Will in the Timaeus

Jorgenson, Chad

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“…For this view, see [6] (pp. 59-60); [7] (p. 23); [8] (p. 418); [9] (p. 253 and n. 49); [10] (p. 260). 6 Edelstein [11] (p. 360) stresses that "writers of all philosophical creeds gave a prominent place to the analogy of body and soul, to the similarity between the training of the body and the discipline of the soul, to the consideration of medicine as a counterpart of ethics".…”

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“…According to the body-soul analogy which dominates this section of the dialogue (226-230), of the two kinds of badness that affect the soul, one is like bodily sickness, and the other is like ugliness, namely bodily disproportion. In the Timaeus 86b-87b, there is also a distinction between diseases that affect the body and those that affect the soul, but the latter, according to the prevailing reading of this passage, all derive from the body 5 [6][7][8][9][10]. At the end of this passage, the recommended remedy for both psychic and bodily disease is to restore harmony and proportion between the body and the soul themselves.…”

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“…6-7). At that time, far from body and soul being considered as one, there was not even a unitary concept of soul and psychic life 10 [23], cf. [22,24,25].…”

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“…For a criticism of this interpretation as a misconception due to a misunderstanding of the nature of the use of ancient medicine by the philosophers, see Hogan [19] (p. 638, n.7). 10 For the different types of soul that Homer distinguished, see [23] (p. 328). Cf.…”

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Soul as Principle in Plato’s Charmides: A Reading of Plato’s Anthropological Ontology Based on Hermias Alexandrinus on Plato’s Phaedrus

Mouzala

2024

Philosophies

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This paper aims to interpret the role of the soul as ontological, intellectual or cognitive and as the moral principle within the frame of the holistic conception of human psychosomatic health that emerges from the context of Zalmoxian medicine in the proemium of Plato’s Charmides. It examines what the ontological status of the soul is in relation to the body and the body–soul complex of man considered as a psychosomatic whole. By comparing the presentation of the soul as principle in the Charmides and the Phaedrus, the paper defends the thesis that in the former dialogue, Plato develops his own anthropological ontology, which paves the way for the salvation of human existence and health. The soul is bestowed with an ontological primacy that determines the philosophical and medical presuppositions for treating human illness under a holistic view. The interpretation of the ontological relation of the soul to the body and the entire human being in the context of Zalmoxian holistic medicine is based on Hermias Alexandrinus’ exegesis of the conception of the soul as principle in the Phaedrus. This paper demonstrates that, from both the medical holistic viewpoint and the anthropological philosophical perspective, the soul is the principle and πρῶτον with regard to the body and the body–soul complex without being the whole that the corresponding medical epistemology must apprehend.

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Section: The Proemium Of the Charmides: The Encounter Between Philoso...mentioning

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“…6-7). At that time, far from body and soul being considered as one, there was not even a unitary concept of soul and psychic life 10 [23], cf. [22,24,25].…”

Section: The Soul and The Whole: The Analogies In Charmides 156e1-157a3mentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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