SOSC 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thumos, Thrasymachus, Southern Soul
29 Mar 2019
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Answer 2 questions around 250 words each. You can use notes on the back of instruction paper. Look at republic accounts of the soul (435d-441c and 588c-e) Three accounts of justice in book 1. Justice of individuals and collectives argued in republic. Above all read, absorb, and answer the question. At the top of your answer give your answers and at the end restate it: after the noble lies, the three parts of the souls (reason, thumos spiritedness, desire) Law of non-contradiction anything cannot be at rest and operating at the same time. Story of leontinus walking back to athens drawn to look at dead bodies but be repelled by them (angry at his eyes) Thumos is also the ally of reason. Reason is presented by socrates as calculative. Reason is the biggest part of the soul, then thumos and desire. Desire is moderation, thumos is courage, reason is practical wisdom.
