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Philosophical concept

Tripartite soul

The tripartite soul distinguishes reason, spirit, and appetite to explain inner conflict and the possibility of just order.

Works
5
Passages
312
Thinkers
3
Traditions
3

Understand uses of the concept

The tripartite soul distinguishes reason, spirit, and appetite to explain inner conflict and the possibility of just order.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 312 passages across 5 works, including Eudemian Ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, Republic. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: âme tripartite, tripartite soul, three parts of the soul, spirited part, appetitive part

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  2. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. RepublicPlato · 278 passages
  4. Socrates in Plato’s RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  5. Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages