The Many-Headed Beast
Young Heretics
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How to Tame the Many-Headed Beast
Follow your heart as an ethos doesn't even enable you to ask the question, he says. But if you have this set of questions and ideas that comes from Plato, well then you might stand a chance of actually stealing yourself for these difficult times. The reason Plato makes the many headed beasts the largest of all the parts of the soul is because it's the loudest,. It's the part that we feel most immediately in the moment. Because it's contradictory, we know it's not a guide for action.
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