Plato and the Soul

1
Plato and the Soul
2
Platos Influence

• Plato plus Christianity equals ninety percent of
  the world we know and live in. Jacob Needleman

3
The Influence of Socrates

• Plato is the result of the concrete search for
  inner virtue embodied in the life of Socrates.

4
Self and Cosmos

• The microcosm and the macrocosm were related.
  Socrates adherence to the Delphic Motto know
  thyself takes on cosmic significance. To know
  oneself was to know the nature of reality.

5
Question

• Who is the philosopher king in the psyche?

6
Image of the Soul
7
Relationship of the Parts

• It is not that the different parts of the soul
  need equal say in how things go, but rather they
  must understand what, or who, they need to obey.

8
Nous

• Nous is the mind that corresponds to the Logos,
  that is, the rational principle of the universe.

9
Educating the Emotions

• We are educated in the negative emotions.
  Perhaps that is our clue we need to move in
  another direction.