[444b]
“Must not this be a kind of civil war1 of these three principles, their
meddlesomeness2 and
interference with one another's functions, and the revolt of one part
against the whole of the soul that it may hold therein a rule which does not
belong to it, since its nature is such that it befits it to serve as a slave
to the ruling principle? Something of this sort, I fancy, is what we shall
say, and that the confusion of these principles and their straying from
their proper course is injustice and licentiousness and cowardice and
brutish ignorance and, in general,3 all turpitude.”
“Precisely this,”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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