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A corresponding essay can be found here: http://premieretat.com/platos-republic-books-8-9-degradation-of-soul/
In this video, I examine books 8 and 9 of the Republic, turning from Plato's analysis of the fall of cultures, to his corresponding account of the fall of individual souls. He takes there to be reciprocal relation between the two: cultures falling because degraded men and women demand political changes corresponding to their corrupt characters, and individual men and women falling because they cannot thrive in a degenerate culture. As with cultures, there is a progressive decline for individual types of men and women: they fall from aristocracy of soul to timocracy, from timocracy to oligarchy, oligarchy to democracy, and, finally, from democracy to tyranny.
I examine each state in this degradation, explaining Plato's account of each transition and his analysis of each character type.
I also compare Plato's analysis of character with that of modern psychology, especially that of Freud. I note while they both ostensibly attempt to account for the same phenomenon, they nonetheless differ in crucial ways. Specifically, Plato believes in the existence of reason and the soul, provides an unapologetically value laden account, and preserves the distinction between the conscious, the unconscious, and the supra-conscious.
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