| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages) |
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Cover -- The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1: Tripartition and the Spirited "Part" of the Soul -- 1. The Place of Tripartition in Plato's Thought -- 2. The Language of Tripartition -- 3. Psychic Parthood -- 2: Spirited Motivation and the Two Faces of Thumos -- 1. Traditional Survey of Spirited Motivations -- 2. Spirit and the Oikeion -- 3. A New Account of Spirited Motivation -- 3: The Social and Political Nature of Spirit |
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1. Thumos and Community in Early Greek Literature -- 2. Spirit, Appetite, and the Social Interpretation -- 3. Popular Culture and the Corruption of Spirit: Preliminary Sketch -- 4. The Problem of Moral Education -- 5. The Problem of Civic Strife -- PART II -- 4: Political Psychology in the Great Speech of the Protagoras -- 1. The "Art" of Politics -- 2. Political "Virtue" and Spirited Nature -- 3. Democratic Moral Education -- 4. Plato's Skepticism -- 5: Spirited Motivation and the Novelty of Reason: Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. Education and Pleonexia in Early Dialogues |
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2. Friends, Enemies, and Civic Strife in Early Dialogues -- 3. The "Third" Part of the Soul: A Case against Developmentalism -- PART III -- 6: Musical and Gymnastic Education in the Republic -- 1. Early Education in the Kallipolis -- 2. Musical Education and Thumos -- 3. Musical Education and Reason -- 4. Gymnastic Education -- 7: Oikeion and Allotrion in the City and Soul: The Psychology of Virtue and Civic Unity -- 1. The War against Appetite -- 2. The Ally of Reason -- 3. Oikeios Logos -- 4. Civic Unity in the Kallipolis -- 8: The Spirited Part of the Soul in the Timaeus -- 1. The Mortal Soul |
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2. An Imagistic Account of Spirited Cognition -- 3. Cognition and Communication in the Republic -- PART IV -- 9: Spirited Psychology and Civic Temperament in the Statesman -- 1. The Myth of Cronus -- 2. Courage and Moderation -- 3. Statesmanship and Thumos -- 4. Political Psychology in Contemporary Greek Thought -- 10: Politics, Education, and Spirit in the Laws -- 1. Thumos and the Bipartite Soul -- 2. Courage and Civic Unity -- 3. Musical Education and the Drinking Party -- 4. Gymnastic Education in Magnesia -- 5. The Law -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
| Summary |
Josh Wilburn examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy. Focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation, he explores the social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his works |
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"his book examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy, focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation over the course of his career. Spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato, in the sense that it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form relationships with one another, interact politically, and cooperate together in and protect their communities. Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place. Moreover, as spirit is the political part of the soul in this sense, two social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his works--namely, how to educate citizens properly in virtue and how to maintain unity and stability in political communities--cannot be addressed and resolved, on his view, without proper attention to the spirited aspects of human psychology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 27, 2022) |
| Subject |
Plato -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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Soul -- Philosophy
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Soul -- Psychological aspects
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Soul.
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Soul -- Philosophy
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Soul -- Psychological aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191947230 |
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0191947237 |
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9780192606402 |
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0192606409 |
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