Summary Of Socrates Three Parts Of The Human Soul

Journal Entry #1 Book IV 435d-445e seems to be Socrates’ argument about the three parts of the human soul and how the human soul with its three parts are parallel to the republic and the three different kinds of citizens. What I am interested in is the methods that Socrates implements to come to his conclusions. More specifically, I would like to talk about Socrates’ analogies that he uses to come to his conclusions. Very interesting, to say the least, analogies that Socrates uses is physical actions to explain opposing parts of the soul working together(153). To begin his argument about a three part soul, Socrates first tries to explain that opposing parts of the soul can work together. To explain this conclusion, Socrates uses two analogies