The role of soul in perception, in Plato’s dialogues
Keywords:
soul, perceptiom, epistéme, recollectionAbstract
This paper aims to display the role played by sense-perception in the attainment of epistéme.The senses (aisthéseis) channel the flux of sensations (aisthánomena) to the soul, which transforms them into sensibles (aisthéta), thereby making possible the interpretation and judgment by means of which thought (dianóeisthai, diánoia) grasps the inner and outer worlds. Epistéme can thus be attained through the calculation and comparison of sense-experiences. But this result is only possible within the context of anámnesis. Recollection occurs when a given senseperception evokes a “similar” (hómoion) and previously grasped notion that is then responsible for its subsequent conceptualization and interpretation.
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