Lloyd Gerson offers an original new study of Plato's account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. His book locates Plato's psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images of a disembodied ideal, and that they reflect many of the conflicting states of the sensible world. For Plato, Gerson argues, philosophy is the means to recognizing one's true identity.

• Introduction


• 1. Souls and Persons


• 2. Immortality and Persons in Phaedo


• 3. Divided Persons: Republic and Phaedrus


• 4. Knowledge and Belief in Republic


• 5. Theaetetus: What is Knowledge?


• 6. Personhood in the Later Dialogues


• 7. Concluding Remarks