Plato: The body and the soul
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 13-09-14 18:57
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- Plato: The body and the soul
- Soul
- Enables us to have knowledge.
- Simple but complex (Like a diamond)
- Cannot be split into parts/changed
- Inner workings (charioteer analogy)
- The Charioteer (reason) tries to control the two horses.
- Horse 1 (Spirit): tries to direct us to do the right thing and fulfil our purpose (philosophical thought)
- Horse 2 (Desire): guides us to indulge our bodily needs and distracts us from philosophical thought.
- The Charioteer (reason) tries to control the two horses.
- Body
- Part of the material world and subject to change.
- Part of the empirical world so its senses cannot be a reliable guide to the truth.
- Allows us to gain opinion via our senses.
- Constantly distracting us from our real purpose which is philosophical thought.
- Soul
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