![]() ![]() In spite of this restriction, I find a number of striking ideas that set the stage for further philosophical development. Because Plato wrote dialogues, I restrict myself to analyzing the concepts of self and person as they appear in the mouths of various Platonic characters and refrain from speculating whether Plato himself endorses what his characters say. This dissertation sets out to examine those passages throughout Plato's dialogues that most clearly require some notion of the self or the person, and by doing so to clarify the logical lineaments of these concepts as they existed in fourth century Athens. Some scholars even assert that the ancient Greeks did not possess the concepts of self or person. While most scholars know, or think they know, what Plato says about the soul, there is less certainty regarding what he says about the self.
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