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Ogniz,: He Found of Judgement Sel-Presen Rtion." of These of The NSTNT A
ne
uos T cicen Constituent')
word for pan (meros),
translation ar intended to De inaeienunte. Esewhere Plato
as if the
soul or mind had hree distinct parts,
the as in D e
speaks
and Timacus, sometimes as f ther were a single stream of mental ene
manifesting itsely tn dferent dcvities, as in the Symposi RY
We
perhaps do well, prsi, lo emeD a r ne nas waried s that he i
hor
speaking uith scienijne prcsion,
but rather on the level of
comversation; and, second, to bear in mind that he is concemed wi"y
and nof wih psyehoioRY. wn a gEneral classijhication of the main
or impulses fo action, ralher than d scientific analysis of the mi
de i
in fact, probably always conscious that m speaking of pans' ('elemene
or what nor) of the soul he is sing a elaphor. (2) What exactly are the
thrre "elements' that Plato descnbes here is little difficulty
with t
them. By 'appetite' Plato means the purely instinctive desires in thei,
Simplest Jom; Is easy enoug, on d common-sense level, to recoom
them. 'Reason' inchudes not only the ability to understand and to think ogniz,
before we at, the faculty of calculation and foresight, but also the ability
tomake up one's mind, the Jacully of deision. The third clement at fin
appears more misellaneous, including, as we have see, such qualities
indignation, courage, detemination, spirnt, and so on. Two illustrations
may help us to understand it. First the distinction, still commonly made,
Bater
p. y6;
for Butler see Duncan
C Feld. The Philosophy of Plate,
1.
Moral Phuloswphy (Pelican),
JUSTICE IN STATE AND INDIVIDUAL 149
minds. said.
That is the method; let us follow it, he
right
"Then when we apply the _same term.to.two things, one large
'None.
when its three natura
u we agreed that/a state was just was selt-
each doing their job, and that it
were
Stuents certain other states and
brave and wisc in virtue of
pined and
dispositions of those constituents.
That is so," he said.
to find
'we shall expect
then, my dear Glaucon, 'I continued,
cu, same three
elements in his personality
the individual has the
1. Pauchë.