The Just City

Socrates develops three different kinds of motivation, three basic kinds of love. Each part of the soul has its own pleasure or its own kind of joy," he says. "With the competitive part, Plato has in mind bodily pleasure, food and drink and sex" In books five through seven, a famous digression about initially the living arrangements that they've described in the just city,. Socrates has some things to say about how the rulers will live holding everything in common.