R4.5 Anatomy of the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 4 w/ Jonathan Lear
Ancient Greece Declassified
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The Thumos and Your Appetite Are Interacting
i think one of the hardest things to do when aching it, or for students to pick up is that it's not just a theory. The place to start is with human experience. And then can you find plausible human experience to which this kind of theory provides some insight or answer? i think if you start, not with the theory per se, but with the human experience, and then ask, how might we theorize it, it comes out much more plausible. Great. So, jonathan, what i suggest, as we take a quick in a water or bathroom break, see, this is the key. I'll just want to say this is your thumos acting
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