Plato on the soul

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  • Plato on the Soul
    • Soul and Body are SEPARATE entities
      • Body is temporary, physical, material aspect
        • not immortal
      • Soul is the essential immaterial aspect.
        • immortal
      • Dualist View
    • Soul is temporarily united with a physical body
      • But can move on at anytime
    • Soul is immortal
      • Soul is released from the body and is able to renew the contemplation of the form of the good
      • Every quality comes into being from its own opposite or depends on its opposite to exist at all
        • Things are hot because there are colder things
        • Things are bright because there are dimmer things
        • Life comes from death, death comes form life
          • endless chain
            • Birth
              • death
                • rebirth
      • Meno worked out a puzzle without any education
        • has knowledge from before birth
          • Souls have once lived in the world of perfect forms
    • Tripartite view
      • Reason
        • Emotion
          • Basic needs which motivate us and are controlled by reason
            • Appetite
        • Appetite
        • Holds the reigns to make sure appetite and emotion work together in a rational direction
      • The soul consists of these elements

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