Plato's Three Parts of The Soul
Title: Plato's Three Parts of The Soul
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 585 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plato's Three Parts of The Soul
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 585 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
As the founder of the first university and considered the most powerful thinker in history Plato believed that the soul was made of three parts. The Three Parts of the Soul in Plato's Republic and Phaedrus are mans Appetite (Black Horse on Left), Spirited (White Horse on Right), and Reason (Charioteer). Each part of the soul has it's own virtue as well as its own vice. Temperance is the virtue of Appetite, Courage the virtue
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horses and chariot.
The charioteer should be in charge of the whole system deciding about when to give each horse it rein or when to hold it back. The horses should not govern the whole system; the whole system should be run by the rational decisions of the charioteer. Plato believed this was the perfect balance of the soul and would lead to harmonization and happiness of the soul creating a good and just person.