PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Potentiality And Actuality, Chiliagon, Mental Event
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Aporia - aporia is the greek term for the state of helplessness the inability to proceed that ends all of plato"s early dialogues. Socrates succeeds in showing that his interlocutors have no appropriate definition for the topic under consideration (be that topic piety, love, courage, justice, or whatever else), but nor is he able to supply one himself. Appetite - appetite is the largest aspect of our tripartite soul. It is the seat of all our various desires for food, drink, sexual gratification, and other such pleasures. Though the appetite lusts after many things, plato dubs it money-loving, since money is required for satisfying most of these desires. In a just man, the appetite is strictly controlled by reason and reason"s henchman, spirit. Auxiliary - plato divides his just society into three classes: the producers, the auxiliaries, and the guardians. The auxiliaries are the warriors, responsible for defending the city from invaders, and for keeping the peace at home.
