Mental Conflict

As earthquakes expose geological faults so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires beliefs motivations aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord or achieve the ideal of harmony? Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection upon them alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality and of the understanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turn the treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates Plato Aristotle and the Stoics A. W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant to philosophical discussion today. . Language: English