Plato on Soul and Agency
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004727069" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004727069</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004727069" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004727069</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Plato on Soul and Agency
Original language description
Giving souls strong individuality is one of Plato's most influential but also most controversial innovations. This book addresses such souls' agency, which is a prerequisite of their many functions not only in human life but in the universe at large. Its conclusion is that the agency proper to the soul stands apart from other Platonic causes as the only full-blooded agent whose actions and passions organize our short moral and civic life, all the while participating, thanks to the soul's immortal existence and repeated incarnation, in the maintenance of the cosmos as a home to innumerable living species. Together with treating this multitude of the soul's tasks, the book pays attention to the unavoidable personification of the soul and to the carefully constructed images that impress on the reader its complexity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
ISBN
978-90-04-72705-2
Number of pages
231
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS book
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