... based on a parallel between what he believes to be the soul of man and the state. Plato divides the soul into three parts: the appetitive or of desires, the spiritual or emotional, and the rational part concerned with obtaining wisdom. The highest and best of these three parts is the rational part. Plato then creates a parallel between the soul and the State. The appetitive side ... individuals are told a lie about there past and are told a bigger lie in order to subject them into social classes. I think that this is a great contradiction in Plato's philosophy. In his book The Republic ...

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