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but examine this
second one and see if there is anything in it.” “What is
it?” “Since,” said I, “corresponding
to the three types in the city, the soul also is tripartite,1 it will admit,2 I think, of
another demonstration also.” “What is that?”
“The following: The three parts have also, it appears to me, three
kinds of pleasure, one peculiar to each, and similarly three appetites and
controls.” “What do you mean?” he said.
“One part, we say, is that with which a man learns, one is that
with which he feels anger. But the third part, owing to its manifold
forms,3 we
could not easily designate by any one distinctive name,4
1 Cf. 435 B-C ff.
2 Practically all editors reject τὸ λογιστικόν. But Apelt, p. 525, insists that δέξεται cannot be used without a subject on the analogy of 453 Dἔοικεν, 497 Cδηλώσει and δείξει, hence we must retain λογιστικόν, in the sense of “ability to reckon,” and he compares Charm. 174 B and the double sense of λογιστικόν in Rep. 525 B, 587 D, 602 E. He says it is a mild mathematical joke, like Polit. 257 A.
3 Cf. Phileb. 26 Cτὸ . . . πλῆθος. Cf. Friedländer, Platon, ii. p. 492, n. 2.
4 Here again the concept is implied (Cf. on 564 B, p. 313, note e and Introd. pp. x-xi). Cf. Parmen. 132 C, 135 B, Phileb. 16 D, 18 C-D, 23 E, 25 C, Aristot.Eth. Nic. 1130 b 2ἑνὶ ὀνόματι περιλαβεῖν, and εἰς ἓν κεφάλαιον ἀπερειδοίμεθα, 581 A, Schleiermacher's interpretation of which, “so würden wir uns in der Erklärung doch auf ein Hauptstück stützen,” approved by Stallbaum, misses the point. For the point that there is no one name for it Cf. What Plato Said, p. 596, on Soph. 267 D.
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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