A Much-Disputed "Whole" at Phaedrus 270

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angličtina
Original language name
A Much-Disputed "Whole" at Phaedrus 270
Original language description
The article discusses several possible interpretations of Socrates' suggestion that we cannot "understand the nature of soul satisfactorily without understanding the nature of the whole" (Phaedrus 270c1-2). Against those who take the "whole" implied herefor the cosmic whole, it argues that nothing in the Phaedrus justifies this interpretation. In the light of both Socrates' conception of rhetoric in this dialogue and his image of the tripartite soul in the palinode, the "whole" whose knowledge is prerequisite to knowing the soul's nature is better understood as either the whole of the composed soul or the whole soul-body compound. The real problem of the passage, the article concludes, is that we lack any clear criteria that would enable us to decidebetween these two readings. At the same time, the dramatic progress of the dialogue makes it possible to argue that Phaedrus briefly misunderstands Socrates' meaning by reading in it some cosmological connotations. This possibility notwit
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP401%2F11%2F0568" target="_blank" >GAP401/11/0568: The order of knowledge, the order of morality and the order of polis in Plato’s philosophy and Platonic tradition</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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