Joe Lau's wiki: Main/History Of Dualism

Plato in the Republic

The human soul has three parts:

  1. the reasoning - knowledge and wisdom
  2. the spirited - seat of emotions connected with self-assurance and self-affirmation
  3. the appetitive - pursues sensual pleasure and avoids suffering
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