Desire and the constitution of the individual in Plato's Republic and Philebus
Keywords:
Individuation principle, Desire, Pleasure, IndividualAbstract
Instead of considering the individuation principle as a formal-static one whereby the individual is what it is, I consider Plato’s individuation principle as an efficient-dynamic principle whereby the individual is constituted as such. And I assert that this is the desire that generates not only characters and actions but also parts of the soul and their proper pleasures. It is a matter of determining how desire exerts its causality, not only in relation to pleasure, but also in relation to the constitution of the human individual.
Downloads
Issue
Section
License
The contents of the manuscript have been tacitly or explicitly approved by the responsible authorities where the research was carried out.
Upon acceptation of the manuscript, the author agrees to allow its publication by Hypnos, declining pecuniary gains due from copyright. If the manuscript is published later in other media, the author agrees to always give credits of its first publication in Hypnos.
If the submitted document includes figures, tables, or large sections of text previously published, the author declares himself responsible for having obtained permission of the original copyright owners of these items for both the online and printed publication of this journal. Credits for copyrighted material must be properly attributed in the manuscript.
A revista 