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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Brecht Buekenhout
Jada Twedt Strabbing
Hatzistavrou, Antony
Baima, Nicholas
Duke, George
Younesie, Mostafa
Concepts
Philosophy
Philosophy and politics
Soul (philosophy)
Science and politics
Ethics
Psychology
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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