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Freedom Pt 4 : America's Founding Ideals & Philosopher Kings

Relevant chapter: Plato’s Tripartite Soul & Human Nature

thing is, human beings, we have an innate capacity to make good choices, right? We have reason. In the Platonic system is called logisticon, right? It was the rational part of the soul. The rational part of the soul was supposed to be governed was supposed to govern the other parts of the soul. Right? Three parts of the soul according to Plato and the neoplatonic philosophers. The appetitive, right? The part that has needs, desires, cravings, aversions, the spirited, the part that is emotional, mostly concerned really with

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