Separation of Body and Soul in Plato’s Phaedo: An Unprecedented Ontological Operation in the Affinity Argument

Abstract

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The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”

“…The unconscious already appears in Plato's Socratic dialogues (Devereux, 2016). Plato describes how Socrates, after successfully demonstrating to Meno that one of his uneducated servants was knowledgeable of the Pythagorean theorem, advocated that we possess untaught, unaware and innate knowledge (anamnesis) that could originate from inborn and precorporeal experiences of the human soul (Cornelli, 2019). Similar arguments for a transcendental unconscious were made by Carl Gustav Carus (1846) and were part of philosophical-religious texts by Friedrich Schelling (1858) and Eduard von Hartmann (1869).…”