Answer to Question 1
- Plato introduced the idea of a three-part soul (psyche) or self including reason, physical appetite, and spirit/passion.
- Plato said the soul is like a chariot drawn by Spirit, a noble horse, and Appetite, a wild horse. Reason is the charioteer who guides the chariot to the eternal realm by controlling the two independent-minded horses.
Answer to Question 2
- Socrates was convinced that, in addition to our physical bodies, each person possesses an immortal soul that survives beyond the death of the body.
- The soul is unchanging and immortal, surviving the death of the body.
- Our souls and bodies are radically different.
- Souls strive for wisdom.
Skull Frontal View Labeled
Plato’s Divided Line
An exploded view of a gerotor electric fuel pump.
The energy set-point view that is the basis of many people’s thinking about hunger and eating.
A schematic view of ribosome subunit rotational motions, based on crystal structures of ribosomes