Kristel Ashley Martinez Valdez

Gr.12- STEM 1- Del Pilar

Plato argues that the soul comprises of three parts namely rational, appetitive,
and the spirited. These parts also match up the three ranks of a just community.
Personal justice involves maintaining the three parts in the proper balance, where
reason rules while appetite obeys.
According to Plato, the appetitive part of the soul is the one that is accountable
for the desires in people. It is accountable for the effortless cravings required to stay
alive like hunger, thirst, and for pointless cravings like desire to over feed. The desires
for essential things should be limited by other sections of the soul, while illegitimate
desires ought to be limited entirely by other elements of soul. The rational soul on the
other hand is the thinking element in every human being, which decided what is factual
and merely obvious, judges what is factual and what is untrue, and intelligently makes
sensible decisions. Finally, the spirited soul produces the desires that love victory and
honor. In the just soul, the spirit acts as an implementer of the rational soul, making sure
that the rules of reason are adhered to. Emotions like indignation and anger are the
impact of the disappointment of the spirit. Someone might respond to the claim that the
soul comprises of three parts.

The soul, according to Aristotle, is a grounding principle of sorts. It is the

realization of life. The soul is the one thing that enables a body to engage in the
necessary activities of life and they build upon one another. the more parts of the soul a
being possesses, the more evolved and developed he is. the three types of soul are the
nutritive soul, the sensible soul, and the rational soul.
The nutritive soul is the first and most widely shared among all living things. For
it can be said that anything that takes in nutrition, grows from this nutrition, and
eventually decays over time has a soul. The sensible soul, or the soul of perception, is
the part of the soul that allows us to perceive the world around us. It encompasses the
senses but also allows us to remember things that happened to us, experience pain and
pleasure, and have appetites and desires. The rational soul belongs to man alone. The
rational soul is that by virtue of which we possess the capacity for rational thought.
Aristotle divides rational thought into two groups. The first is the passive intellect. It is
the part of our mind that collects information and stores it for later use. This is almost an
extension of the sensible soul in that it allows us to act upon the information gathered by
that part of the soul. The active intellect is the part that allows us to engage in the actual
process of thinking. It allows us to take our sensory input, combine it with our memories
and skills and apply it to our betterment. Aristotle also believed that the active intellect
was responsible for our ability to consider abstract concepts that we have never
perceived. Through active intellect, philosophy becomes possible and it is this ability
that distinguishes humans from animals.