Eleanor

“Writing this way is not just for literary effect; the dialogue form formally distances Plato from the views of anyone in the dialogue, and this forces the reader to think for herself what positions are being discussed, and what the upshot is, rather than accepting what is said on Plato’s authority.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“Plato takes the phenomenon of psychological conflict, being torn between two options, to show that the person so torn is not really a unity; he is genuinely torn between the motivational pull of two or more distinct parts of the soul.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“who is ever still, alone, mindful of their thoughts, and focused on nothing?”
― Al K. Line, Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection

“This picture implies, though, that reason has a kind of internal hold on the other parts – it asks them, so to speak, to do things in terms that they can understand and agree to. But then won’t the parts other than reason have to have a kind of reason of their own, in order to understand and go along with what the reason part demands? And then won’t all the parts have to have their own reasons? – which makes it unclear how we are supposed to have found a part of the soul which is separate from reason.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction