R4.5 Anatomy of the Soul | Plato's Republic, book 4 w/ Jonathan Lear
Ancient Greece Declassified
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Plato's Inhibition in the Conducts of Plato
i want to discuss inhibition in the conducts of plato. But before we do that, let's just quickly lay out the three parts of the soul that plato arrives at. Now i think two of them are pretty intuitive for modern readers. The epetitive part is where the appetites live. It's the sum of one's appetites and desires. We don't have an equivalent word for it in english,. So how would you characterize thes tumos? Thumos? Again, i agree with you that it's very hard to understand because of the translation into the word spirit. And who knows what he's talking about.
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