The soul of Socrates
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https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i27.42063Keywords:
soul, polis, mortal, immortal, happinessAbstract
We aim, in this article, to deal with the concepts about the soul that Plato presents in his dialogues. By making analogies between the soul and the polis, Plato introduces a method of anthropological and political study that aims to answer questions such as: (1) is the soul mortal or immortal?; (2) single or multiple?; (3) does its happiness consist of what? Since the soul has, at least in Book 4 of the Respublica, a structure linked to the polis structure, it is relevant for our study to investigate the relationships between virtue in the soul and virtue in the polis. In addition to dialogues that bring a predominance of evidence that corroborates the hypothesis of the division of the soul, as it is the case of Respublica, Phaedrus and Timaeus, we will approach other dialogues that tend, predominantly, to the opposite opinion, that is, the one according to which the soul would be one, as it is the case of Meno, Protagoras and Phaedo dialogues.
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