What is Platos definition of self

This question has been the topic of deliberation for many centuries dating all the way back to socrates.As we can see, the body and the soul can be separated.In plato, the 'true self' is discussed in the context of knowledge and embodiment, and involves the view that we acquire our true self when we activate our latent knowledge of the forms.The question is whether the sheer fact of embodied existence does not raise an insurmountable obstacle to our reaching this state.He was the very first known philosopher to broach the subject of self.Most philosophical definitions of self—per descartes, locke, hume, and william james—are expressed in the first person.

Plato's idea on the self is very simple yet complex.In plato's republic he defines justice as doing one's own work and not meddling with what is not one's own (plato 139, 433b).