[440e]
take note of this?”
“Of what?” “That what we now think about the
spirited element is just the opposite of our recent surmise. For then we
supposed it to be a part of the appetitive, but now, far from that, we say
that, in the factions1 of the soul, it much rather
marshals itself on the side of the reason.” “By all
means,” he said. “Is it then distinct from this too, or
is it a form of the rational, so that there are not three but two kinds in
the soul, the rational and the appetitive, or just as in the city there were
1 Cf. 440 B and Phaedrus 237 E.
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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