# Tripartite soul

- Id: `tripartite_soul`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/tripartite-soul/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `31e1b5b08e8518cc69247e5d2bcb24864bf075e1064677a4dca7210cd072d3ff`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:socrates.plato_republic:581",
    "passage:plato.republic:581",
    "passage:aristotle.nicomachean_ethics:3.12"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "âme tripartite",
    "tripartite soul",
    "three parts of the soul",
    "spirited part",
    "appetitive part"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 5,
    "passages": 312,
    "thinkers": 3,
    "traditions": 3
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristotle.eudemian_ethics",
        "title": "Eudemian Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/eudemian-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```