... role as psychologist are numerous and oftentimes rather obscure, so the reader would do well to focus instead on the less numerous justifications that Plato cites for banning things in his aristocracy. In fact, there are only two arguments that Plato presents over the course of The Republic to justify banning things in the city, but each argument is extremely important in its own ... class in the city: the rational to the guardians, the spirited to the auxiliaries, and the appetitive to the producers of the city. Also, the soul of every citizen in each class of the city is said be domina...

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... : body and soul. And contained within Greek mythology was the 'possibility of a temporary wraith-like existence in the Underworld.'6 However in The Republic 'Socrates' maintained that all human beings would enjoy a life after death. The Ancient Greeks did not presuppose any life after death, believing true immortality belonged to the gods of Olympus. For Plato the soul was our identity. He derives in Phaedo that it ... not fear or resent death. The soul is not maintained by Plato as always perfect, "it is imprisoned by the body and tainted by it."14 'This 'soul-identi...

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... are currently very controversial. In The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Apology, Phaedo, and The Republic, it is evident how Thucydides and Plato define each of these aforementioned ideas. Thucydides and Plato have differing opinions about what makes equality existent or nonexistent in a society and how this equality or inequality creates inferiority and difference between individuals. In The History of the Peloponnesian War it is clear ... of inequalities of functions. Each person's techne or specialization is determined by the type of soul he has. In Phaedo, Plato touches on Soc...

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