Plato
What is the name of Plato's text that we studied today?
The Republic
What is the soul, according to Aristotle?
The form or structure of a living thing.
What exists at the highest level of reality, according to Plato?
The Forms
What is Aristotle's account of the relationship of the emotions to the body?
They are necessarily connected.
What is the name of the allegory that explain how we can ascend to knowledge?
Allegory of the cave
What is Aristotle's definition of an emotion?
"that which leads ones condition to be so transformed that his judgement is affected, and which is accompanied by pleasure and pain"
What are the 3 parts of the soul, according to Plato?
Reason, Appetite, Spirit
What are the 4 types of soul?
Nutritive, Perceptive, Locomotive, Rational
What is our relationship to our emotions, according to Plato?
They must be controlled by reason and spirit to accomplish our goals and for society to function.
Various possibilities: flourishing requires the right disposition to our emotions so that we do not react too strongly or too little