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    Plato's theory of the soul, which was inspired variously by the teachings of Socrates, considered the psyche (Ancient Greek: ψῡχή, romanized: psūkhḗ) to...
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  • In Plato's theory of epistemology, anamnesis (/ˌænæmˈniːsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἀνάμνησις) refers to the recollection of innate knowledge acquired before...
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  • that exist even outside of human minds and that constitute the basis of reality. Thus, Plato's Theory of Forms is a type of philosophical realism, asserting...
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  • Metempsychosis (category Plato's theory of soul)
    have debated the extent of Plato's belief in metempsychosis since at least the Renaissance. Marsilio Ficino argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis...
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    Thumos (category Plato's theory of soul)
    guided by logos). In the Republic (Book IV) soul becomes divided into (See Plato's tripartite theory of soul): nous ("intellect", "reason"), which is or...
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    founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism. Plato's most...
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    history. In ancient philosophy, Plato's dialogue Timaeus introduces the universe as a living creature endowed with a soul and reason, constructed by the...
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    authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (dikaiosúnē), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known...
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  • of Seth, Allogenes the Stranger, and Marsanes. Autogenes in Gnosticism is roughly parallel to the Platonic soul. Aeon (Gnosticism) Plato's theory of soul...
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    Nous (redirect from Noetic theory)
    already in their soul, which they somehow remember from previous lives. Both theories were to become highly influential. As in Xenophon, Plato's Socrates frequently...
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    Phaedo (redirect from Plato's Phaedo)
    Plato's Phaedo: An Interpretation. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press. Frede, Dorothea. 1978. "The Final Proof of the Immortality of the Soul in Plato's...
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    Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect...
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    Prometheus (category Children of Hera)
    dialogue titled Protagoras, Plato contrasts Prometheus with his dull-witted brother Epimetheus, "Afterthinker". In Plato's dialogue Protagoras, Protagoras...
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    Hestia (category Children of Cronus)
    (goddess of sex and love) has "no power" over Hestia. At Athens, "in Plato's time", notes Kenneth Dorter "there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve...
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    mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king of Olympus. Maia is the daughter of Atlas and Pleione...
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  • University edition Bilingual Edition of Plato's Timaeus in English and Greek side by side "Platonic Solids and Plato's Theory of Everything". MathPages.com. Digby...
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    desires. Plato compares the three parts of the soul or psyche to a societal caste system. According to Plato's theory, the three-part soul is essentially...
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    Atropos (category Children of Zeus)
    mentions of her in more ways than one as it turns out, including this fate's moniker. Plato may be behind the creation of Atropos as many of the early...
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  • Pharmakos (redirect from Plato's Pharmacy)
    finality of the pharmakos execution or expulsion. Pharmakos is also used as a vital term in Derridean deconstruction. In his essay "Plato's Pharmacy"...
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    Rhea (mythology) (category Children of Gaia)
    Sangarius) Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12.81-83 Meisner, p. 134 Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Cratylus 403 e (90, 28 Pasqu.) [= Orphic fr. 145 Kern; West 1983, p. 217;...
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    Moirai (redirect from Temple of the Moirai)
    and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law. In Plato's Republic the Three Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity). The Moirai were...
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    In philosophy, Plato's epistemology is a theory of knowledge developed by the Greek philosopher Plato and his followers. Platonic epistemology holds that...
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    Hephaestus (category Children of Hera)
    ISBN 0-691-00222-3. Google books. Stein, Murray, Soul: Treatment and Recovery: The selected works of Murray Stein, Routledge, 2015. ISBN 9781317649847...
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  • index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities List of mortals in Greek mythology List of Greek...
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    Athena (redirect from Athena of the city)
    (428–347 BC) gives some rather imaginative etymologies of Athena's name, based on the theories of the ancient Athenians and his etymological speculations:...
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    Circe (category Children of Helios)
    and soul / moored in the muddy port of the contented beast! / O prodigal, much-traveled soul, is this your country? His escape from this mire of sensuality...
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    Clotho (category Children of Zeus)
    Republic of Plato as the daughter of Necessity, as well. In Roman mythology, it was believed that Clotho was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. As one of the...
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    Lachesis (category Children of Zeus)
    born of Zeus and Themis. Lachesis is also mentioned in the tenth book of the Republic of Plato as the daughter of Necessity. She instructs the souls who...
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  • Plato's Theory of the Soul" Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 523-544. 2021. Campbell, Douglas R. "Self‐Motion and Cognition: Plato's Theory of the...
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    Platonism (redirect from Views of Plato)
    with the soul. Many Platonic notions secured a permanent place in Christianity. At the heart of Plato's philosophy is the theory of the soul. Francis...
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