Lógos-páthos: motives for conversion in Plato
Keywords:
Plato , conversion , truth, experienceAbstract
The knowledge of truth, in Plato, is an experience that calls for conversion of the soul (μεταστροφή, περιστροφή). The basic feature of this experience consists in some sort of connection, which is constantly at work, between rational arguments and their non-rational conditions, briefly, lógos and páthos. How does this connection show up in Plato? Its crucial importance emerges many times at both the narrative (récit) and the theoretical level. In the three parts of my contribution, I show how logos-páthos intertwines with Plato’s notion of conversion considered as a double-sided phenomenon, as both “process” of moral education and “noetic event”.
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