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Oligarchy and the Tripartite Soul in Plato’s Republic (2021)

Jorgenson, Chad (Author)

Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Volume: 54
Issue: 1
Pages: 59-88

URI: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/apeiron-2018-0057/html

DOI: 10.1515/apeiron-2018-0057

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In Republic VIII, oligarchy is represented as a transitional or hybrid regime combining features of aristocracy and timocracy with the rule of appetitive desire characteristic of democracy and tyranny. The apparently anomalous intermediary position of oligarchy, in which an object of appetitive soul provides the foundation for interpersonal and political norms, demonstrates the complexity of the interaction between ruling soul parts and underlying rational structures that give unity to each constitution and character type. This interaction cannot be adequately accounted for in terms of the activity of autonomous soul parts whose interactions are wholly reduced to quantitative relations of force.

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