书名: Mental Conflict (Issues in Ancient Philosophy)
作者: A. W. Price (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (December 14, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415041511
ISBN-13: 978-0415041515
Book Description
As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord, or achieve the ideal of harmony?
Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute, or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection upon them alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality, and of the understanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turn the treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, A.W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant to philosophical discussion today.
Review
"A profound and sustained exploration of the theories of mind devised by Greek philosophers to account for psychological conflict." -- Malcolm Schofield
About the Author
A. W. Price is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
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作者: A. W. Price (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (December 14, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415041511
ISBN-13: 978-0415041515
Book Description
As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord, or achieve the ideal of harmony?
Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute, or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection upon them alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality, and of the understanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turn the treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, A.W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant to philosophical discussion today.
Review
"A profound and sustained exploration of the theories of mind devised by Greek philosophers to account for psychological conflict." -- Malcolm Schofield
About the Author
A. W. Price is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
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