Dialectical Epimeleia: Platonic Care of the Soul and Philosophical Cognition
In this paper I argue that Plato’s notion of the care of the self is his remedy to the psychological malady he refers to as ‘wandering’. The wandering self requires care, and a close reading of the Platonic corpus indicates self-cultivation means stabilizing the soul in accordance with its intellig...
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| Language: | English |
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Coimbra University Press
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Plato |
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| Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/5317 |