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should not be possible for the soul to be at the same time both in one state and its opposite. From this, it follows that there must be at least two aspects to the soul. Having named these as "reason" and "appetite", Plato goes on to identify a third aspect, "spirit", which in a healthy psyche ought to be aligned with reason.
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It is not clear how these two roles of the soul are related to each other. Sarah Broadie famously complained that “readers of the Phaedo sometimes take Plato to task for confusing soul as mind or that which thinks, with soul as that which animates the body." Others included II.M. Crombie and Dorothea
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For instance, it seems that, given each person has only one soul, it should be impossible for a person to simultaneously desire something yet also at that very moment be averse to the same thing, as when one is tempted to commit a crime but also averse to it. Both Socrates and Glaucon agree that it
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More recent scholarship has overturned this accusation, arguing that part of the novelty of Plato's theory of the soul is that it was the first to unite the different features and powers of the soul that became commonplace in later ancient and medieval philosophy. For Plato, the soul moves things by
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In the cyclical and Form-of-life arguments, for instance, the soul is presented as something connected with life, where, in particular, in the final argument, this connection is spelled out concretely by means of the soul's conceptual connection with life. This connection is further developed in the
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where the definition of soul is given as self-motion. Rocks, for instance, do not move unless something else moves them; inanimate, unliving objects are always said to behave this way. In contrast, living things are capable of driving themselves. Plato uses this observation to illustrate his famous
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Meanwhile, in the recollection and affinity arguments, the connection with life is not explicated or used at all. These two arguments present the soul as a knower (i.e., a mind). This is most clear in the affinity argument, where the soul is said to be immortal by virtue of its affinity with the
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Plato was the first known person in the history of western philosophy to believe that the soul was both the source of life and the mind. In Plato's dialogues, we find the soul playing many disparate roles. Among other things, Plato believes that the soul is what gives life to the body (which was
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of a person, being that which decides how people behave. Plato considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of a person's being. Plato said that even after death, the soul exists and is able to think. He believed that as bodies die, the soul is continually reborn
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would be the smallest part of the soul (as the rulers would be the smallest population within the Republic), but that, nevertheless, a soul can be declared just only if all three parts agree that the
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means of its thoughts, as one scholar puts it, and accordingly, the soul is both a mover (i.e., the principle of life, where life is conceived of as
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Broadie, Sarah. 2001. “Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101: 295–308. Quotation from page 301.
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Plato, most of the time, says that there is a distinct reward-and-punishment phase of the afterlife between reincarnations. Only in the
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does the reward-and-punishment phase disappear; in these two texts, the punishment is said to be the reincarnation itself.
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Is there any function of the soul that you could not accomplish with anything else, such as taking care of something (
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most famously caused problems for scholars who were trying to understand this aspect of Plato's theory of the soul.
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See Campbell 2021: 524 n.1 for more examples of this scholarly trend through the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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doctrine that the soul is a self-mover: life is self-motion, and the soul brings life to a body by moving it.
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presents a real challenge to commentators because Plato oscillates between different conceptions of the soul.
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We see this casual oscillation between different roles of the soul in many dialogues. First of all, in the
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The Platonic soul consists of three parts, which are located in different regions of the body:
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while ferociously defending the whole from external invasion and internal disorder.
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Plato's account of the soul as consisting of logical, spirited, and appetitive parts
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From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category
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the rulers, the military, and the ordinary citizens). The function of the
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Plato's theory of the reincarnation of the soul combined the ideas of
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What about living? Will we deny that this is a function of the soul?
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is to rule through the love of learning gently. The function of the
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Book 1, 353d. Translation found in Campbell 2021: 523.
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is to produce and seek pleasure. The function of the
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Index

Plato's tripartite theory of soul

engraved gem
a series
Platonism

Life
Works
Theory of forms
Form of the Good
Theory of soul
Epistemology
Political philosophy
Euthyphro dilemma
Demiurge
Atlantis
The Republic
Allegory of the cave
Analogy of the Sun
Analogy of the divided line
Philosopher king
Ship of State
Ring of Gyges
Myth of Er
The works of Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Cratylus

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