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and
fostering the one with fair words and teachings and relaxing and soothing
and making gentle the other by harmony and rhythm?”
“Quite so,” said he. “And these two thus
reared and having learned and been educated to do their own work in the true
sense of the phrase,1 will preside over the
appetitive part which is the mass2 of the soul in each of us and
the most insatiate by nature of wealth. They will keep watch upon it, lest,
by being filled and infected with the so-called pleasures associated with
the body3 and so waxing big and strong, it may
not keep to4 its
own work
1 Cf. on 433 B-E, 443 D, and Charmides 161 B.
2 Cf. on 431 A-B, Laws 689 A-B.
3 Strictly speaking, pleasure is in the mind, not in the body. Cf. Unity of Plato's Thought, n. 330.καλουμένων implies the doctrine of the Gorgias 493 E, 494 C, Philebus 42 C, Phaedrus 258 E, and 583 B-584 A, that the pleasures of appetite are not pure or real. Cf. Unity of Plato's Thought, n. 152. Cf. on λεγομένων431 C.
4 Cf. on 426 E, 606 B.
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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