Knowing Persons A Study in Plato
, by Gerson, Lloyd P.- ISBN: 9780199288670 | 0199288674
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/4/2006
Lloyd Gerson offers an original new study of Plato's account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. His book locates Plato's psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal, and that they reflect many of the conflicting states of the sensible world. For Plato, Gerson argues, philosophy is the means to recognizing one's true identity.