{"title":"Clothes Make the Man: Plato and the Invention of the Human Soul","authors":"Michael Naas","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this essay I demonstrate that the theme or trope of clothing is, in Plato, not just some rhetorical embellishment of the dialogues but an essential element in Plato's understanding of the relationship between the human, who is in need of the supplement of clothing, and the animal, who is not.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"19 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In this essay I demonstrate that the theme or trope of clothing is, in Plato, not just some rhetorical embellishment of the dialogues but an essential element in Plato's understanding of the relationship between the human, who is in need of the supplement of clothing, and the animal, who is not.