- 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
The Simple Picture
The Simple Picture
- Chapter:
- (p.41) 4 The Simple Picture
- Source:
- The Brute Within
- Author(s):
Hendrik Lorenz (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
It is widely held that in Republic 8, Plato acknowledges the occurrence within appetite of conflicts, in which it desires something or other and at the same time is averse to the thing in question. It is also believed by many that in the same book, Plato implicitly ascribes to appetite the capacity for means-end reasoning. In showing that both of these views are mistaken, the interpretation of Republic-style soul-partition set out in Chapter 2 is defended.
Keywords: Plato, Republic, appetite, conflict, reasoning, means-end
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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