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055 A history of emotion

The British Museum Membercast

CHAPTER

The Power of Reason

Both Aristotle and Plato, who didn't agree on much, agreed that the highest was reason. Reason was of the three souls they thought he had the tripartite soul. It was the human brain bit that was the bit that had control the others. So am I not in charge then? Is your opinion this time just a little fuzzy thing that easily gets scared and gets angry?"

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