TY - EJOUR A1 - Gouttefarde, Amandine TI - Is the Soul Exiled into the Body? - Reflections on the Origin of a Neoplatonic Belief T2 - Alkemie - Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie 2020 – 2, n° 26. L'âme JO - Alkemie (ISSN 2286-136X), 26, 2020 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11253-2.p.0031 SN - 2286-136X SP - 31 EP - 47 AB - We can often read that, for Plato, the soul is exiled in the body. By looking at the concepts of soul and exile in Plato, one can see that this is wrong. Certain neoplatonic thinkers attributed this assertion a posteriori to Plato, in the light of their rereading of older texts. It was through them that this claim was wrongly anchored in our philosophical imagination. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/06 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - soul, exile, metempsychosis, Greek philosophy, Greek literature LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/alkemie-2020-2-revue-semestrielle-de-litterature-et-philosophie-n-26-l-ame-is-the-soul-exiled-into-the-body.html Y2 - 2024/05/25 ER -