Motif
Tripartite soul or three inner principles
tripartite_soul_or_three_inner_principles
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Cosmos and Cosmology. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 2456-2517 confidence: high
Socrates is introduced as identifying the individual and the State and needing to prove that the individual soul has three parts.
The passage explicitly frames the problem as proving three parts of the soul and distinguishes reasoning, desiring, and anger or spirit.
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