Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria of mixtures, to the arborescent network of po...
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Société d’Études Platoniciennes
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Études Platoniciennes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/etudesplatoniciennes/528 |
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| Summary: | The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria of mixtures, to the arborescent network of poroi or conduits in the body run through by effluences, or the plant metaphors of seeding, germination, growing, rooting and outrooting. But if Plato borrows bodily and physical devices from Empedocles (for whom there is no soul) it is paradoxically to reject the underlying immanentism of these devices: for “what thinks”, should it be called soul or not, cannot be material, neither heterogeneous and proceed from a mixture, nor conceived as similar to sensitiveness. |
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| ISSN: | 2275-1785 |