Plato’s Idea of the Tripartite Soul Essay
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Plato’s idea of the tripartite soul is an analogy to understand how human nature works. It is represented in a picture of a charioteer, and two horses. One horse is white, obedient, fit and of a pure breed where the second is black, a disobedient lumbering animal. The charioteer represents ‘reasoning’. He is in control…