Open AccessTHE CONCEPT OF THE SOUL IN PLATO AND IN PATRISTIC THOUGHT
Author(s) -
Marin Bugiulescu,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international multidisciplinary scientific conference on the dialogue between sciences and arts, religion and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2601-8403
pISSN - 2601-839X
DOI - 10.26520/mcdsare.2021.5.80-84
Subject(s) - soul , philosophy , epistemology , literature , art
This article is focuses on Plato's conception of the soul, through which man as a psycho-physical being, lives with the perspective of immortality. The pre-existence and immortality of the soul is in fact the basis of Platonic philosophy. Plato presents the existence of the soul in the Phaidon Dialogue starting from the hypothesis that something called the soul has existence in the form of pre-existence and post-existence and has an intelligible nature, similar to the structure of Eidos (Ideas). The second part of the research considers the transition from ontology to metaphysics, focused on a different perspective given the patristic thinking in which man is created in his divine image, as a personal being composed of body and soul, a synthesis of the intelligible world with the material.