Mental Conflict

As earthquakes expose geological faults so mental conflict reveals tendenciesto rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but alsowith... » 

As earthquakes expose geological faults so mental conflict reveals tendenciesto rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but alsowithin them for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires beliefsmotivations aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that mightbest enable us to accept the reality of discord or achieve the ideal ofharmony?Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended tocapture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to beresolute or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection uponthem alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality and of theunderstanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turnthe treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates Plato Aristotle and the StoicsA.W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant tophilosophical discussion today. «