Plato's View of the Body and Soul

An important fact about Plato is that he was a Dualist. This means that he saw the world comprised of two sorts of things. One subject where this belief especially comes together, is his view on human beings. Plato believed that a human was comprised of a body, which is physical, and a soul, which is spiritual. His ideas on the subject, although not originally his, became the first fully developed ideas in Western Philosophy …

…work together. Thus, to achieve a rich, full life, reason has to be in command of the irrational parts of the soul. Not all people have these three elements to the same degree. Plato states that while there is one structure to human nature, the ratio of these elements produce different kinds of people and lives. Source: "On Human Nature" <Tab/> By Wall, T <Tab/> P73 - 75