- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1 Parts of the Soul
- 2 The Argument for Tripartition
- 3 Partition
- 4 The Simple Picture
- Introduction
- 5 Imitation and the Soul
- 6 Belief and Reason
- 7 Below Belief and Reason
- Introduction
- 8 Preliminaries
- 9 <i>Phantasia</i>, Desire, and Locomotion
- 10 Desire without <i>phantasia</i>
- 11 The Workings of <i>phantasia</i>
- 12 <i>Phantasia</i> and Practical Thought
- 13 Reason and Non-rational Desire
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- ARISTOTLE
- PLATO
Parts of the Soul
Parts of the Soul
- Chapter:
- (p.13) 1 Parts of the Soul
- Source:
- The Brute Within
- Author(s):
Hendrik Lorenz (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter raises and explains two central questions about Plato’s theory of the tripartite soul. First, what is involved in Plato’s claim that the embodied human soul is a thing of parts? Secondly, does Plato have a reasonable basis for holding that the soul is composed of precisely three parts, reason, spirit, and appetite?
Keywords: Plato, soul, partition, tripartition, appetite, reason, spirit
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1 Parts of the Soul
- 2 The Argument for Tripartition
- 3 Partition
- 4 The Simple Picture
- Introduction
- 5 Imitation and the Soul
- 6 Belief and Reason
- 7 Below Belief and Reason
- Introduction
- 8 Preliminaries
- 9 <i>Phantasia</i>, Desire, and Locomotion
- 10 Desire without <i>phantasia</i>
- 11 The Workings of <i>phantasia</i>
- 12 <i>Phantasia</i> and Practical Thought
- 13 Reason and Non-rational Desire
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- ARISTOTLE
- PLATO