The dialogues of the soul. Around the conception of the platonic psyche

Abstract

In the platonic Phaedo, Socrates defines the death like the separation between the soul and the body, and the philosophical life as an essay of that separation. In contrast with this Plato and their sentences on the impurity of the body, The Republic offers us a more elaborated conception of the human comflicts. In this last dialogue, Plato gives us the proposal of a soul made meat and not a soul trapped in a body. The instinct, the passion and the thought humans are already soul; they are aspects that form a psicosomatic unity. Instead of a conflict between soul and body - the author says - Plato now locates us in the heart of what we would today to call a psychological conflict.