Tripartite and bipolar structure of the soul in Plato
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Tripartite soul. Bipolar structure. Intermediates. Mixture.Abstract
When Plato deals with the “affections and the forms whichshe [the soul] takes in this present life” (Republic X, 612 A), he describes it under a tripartite scheme, as it appears also in the exposure of their genres in the Republic (IV, 437 B-441 C). In the Timaeus, in undertaking the longest route to expose the nature of the soul, Plato presents the Idea of cosmic soul as a mixture of three intermediate ideas coming from a bipolar principle. Just as the soul of the world, also the human soul has a hierarchical tripartite structure using the same bipolar principle that runs the reality. The article shows that these perspectives are not contradictory but complementary in the Platonic work.
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2016-01-04
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Perine, M. (2016). Tripartite and bipolar structure of the soul in Plato. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 59(3), 417–429. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2014.3.22780
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