Human Discourse, Eros, and Madness In Plato’s Republic

Review of Metaphysics 55 (2):235 - 268 (2001)
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IN BOOK 9 OF THE REPUBLIC, Socrates tells Adeimantus that the “tyrantmakers” manage to defeat the relatives of the nascent tyrant in the battle over the young man’s soul by contriving “to make in him some eros, a sort of great winged drone, to be the leader of the idle desires.” This “leader of the soul,” Socrates claims

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