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Believes in order and harmony, morality and self denial

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This element of the soul is represented by the noble white horse on the right.

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Plato was most concerned with demonstrating the immortality of the soul and its ability to survive bodily death.

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Plato's concept of the soul and it's relationship with the body.

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Virtue as Knowledge

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Immortality of the Soul

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Plato believed that people were a “blank slate” at birth which can be changed to anything through their life time depending on the influence of surroundings

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No one who has not studied philosophy and who is not entirely pure at the time of his departure is allowed to enter the company of the gods, but the lover of knowledge only.

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The part that gets angry when it perceives (for example) an injustice being done.

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This is the part of us that thinks, analyzes, looks ahead, rationally weighs options, and tries to gauge what is best and truest overall.

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And that he who is indifferent about them is good as dead

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He would like, as far as he can, to get away from the body and to turn to the soul.

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Plato's idea of the soul is his dualist position, believing that body and soul are fundamentally distinct.

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The lowest class comprises the producers (farmers, artisans, etc).

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The auxiliaries are soldiers who defend it.

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The guardians, who are philosophers, govern the city.

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That the soul existed before it came to the physical body, and it is still there when the body dies.

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Plato believed that the soul is immortal

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This element of the soul is represented by the ugly black horse on the left.

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Life, Love & Everything Between

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And will he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is strongly persuaded in like manner that only in the world below he can worthily enjoy her, still be sad at death?

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And suppose their prison had an echo from the wall facing them?

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And he attains to the purest knowledge of them who goes to each with the mind alone.

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In the world of knowledge, the last thing perceived and only with great difficulty is the essential Form of Goodness.