Platonic Dualism Reconsidered

I argue that in the Phaedo, Plato maintains that the soul is located in space and is capable of locomotion and of interacting with the body through contact. Numerous interpreters have dismissed these claims as merely metaphorical, since they assume that as an incorporeal substance, the soul cannot p...

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Main Author: Obdrzalek, Suzanne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Phronesis
Year: 2024, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-62
Further subjects:B Soul music
B Plato
B Body
B Phaedo
B Timaeus
B Dualism
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Summary:I argue that in the Phaedo, Plato maintains that the soul is located in space and is capable of locomotion and of interacting with the body through contact. Numerous interpreters have dismissed these claims as merely metaphorical, since they assume that as an incorporeal substance, the soul cannot possess spatial attributes. But careful examination of how Plato conceives of the body throughout his corpus reveals that he does not distinguish it from the soul in terms of spatiality. Furthermore, assigning spatial attributes to the soul plays an important role in Plato’s account of the relation of body and soul.
ISSN:1568-5284
Contains:Enthalten in: Phronesis
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685284-bja10081