Departed Souls? Tripartition at the Close of Plato’s Republic

History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 20 (1):139-157 (2017)
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Abstract

Plato’s tripartite soul plays a central role in his account of justice in the Republic. It thus comes as a surprise to find him apparently abandoning this model at the end of the work, when he suggests that the soul, as immortal, must be simple. I propose a way of reconciling these claims, appealing to neglected features of the city-soul analogy and the argument for the soul’s division. The original true soul, I argue, is partitioned, but in a finer manner than how we encounter it in our everyday lives.

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Nathan Bauer
Rowan University

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