Course Information
Course title
 Plato's Notion of the Tripartite Soul 
Semester
 109-1 
Designated for
 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS  GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY  
Instructor
 Hsei-Yung Hsu 
Curriculum Number
 Phl7523 
Curriculum Identity Number
 124 M7180 
Class
  
Credits
 3.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
 Half 
Required/
Elective
 Elective 
Time
 Thursday 2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
Remarks
 The upper limit of the number of students: 15. 
Ceiba Web Server
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1091Phl7523_psuche 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
 Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

Plato’s notion of the tripartite soul is notorious in Plato’s middle dialogues, and one of the problems arising from the notion, which much concerns modern scholars, is: Whether there is the notion of the tripartite soul in Plato’s middle dialogues? If there is, whether it can avoid the division of the soul ad infinitum often charged by some of Platonic scholars? If , however, there is not, how should the notion of the soul in the middle dialogues be understood? The purpose of this course is to lead students to consider these questions by virtue of reading some relevant passages in Plato’ s middle dialogues and the relevant modern literature, to see whether Plato in the middle dialogues proposes the notion of the tripartite soul. The course consists of the following parts:
1) Introduction: The notion of the soul and the problem of the chronology of the dialogues
2) The soul in the middle dialogues: The Republic and The Phaedrus. Do the middle dialogues support the idea that the soul consists of three parts?
3) Conclusion 

Course Objective
  
Course Requirement
 本課程除講授外，每位修課同學應確實閱讀指定的文獻，並於課堂討論。 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
  
Office Hours
  
Designated reading
  
References
 文本：
John M. Cooper (ed.), Plato: Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997.
詮釋：
S. Everson (ed.), Psychology: Companions to Ancient Thought 2, Cambridge, 1991.
A. W. H. Adkins, From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values, and Beliefs, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
Ellen, Wagner (ed.), Essays on Plato’s Psychology, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2001.
T. M. Robinson, Plato’s Psychology, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetite Desire in Plato and Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Mark L. Mcpherran (ed.), Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Christopher Bobonich (ed.), Plato’s Laws: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, Socratic Moral Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan, and Charles Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, Plato’s Symposium: The Ethics of Desire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Charles Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Christopher Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Christopher Gill, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Gail Fine, Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Richard Kraut (ed.), Plato’s Republic: Critical Essays, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997.
Gerasimos Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Richard Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
G. R. F. Ferrari, City and Soul in Plato’s Republic, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 
Grading
    
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
 9/17  課程介紹；靈魂三分觀及柏拉圖對話錄編年的問題  
第2週
 9/24  《理想國篇》卷二，個人與城邦的類比  
第3週
 10/01  中秋節 
第4週
 10/08  B. Williams, ‘The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato’s Republic’, in Essays on Plato’s Psychology, (ed.) E. Wagner, Lanham, 2001, pp. 157-168.  
第5週
 10/15  《理想國》卷三  
第6週
 10/22  《理想國篇》卷四，靈魂三分觀  
第7週
 10/29  《理想國篇》卷八，敗壞個人與敗壞城邦的類比  
第8週
 11/05  《理想國篇》卷九的敗壞個人與敗壞城邦的類比  
第9週
 11/12  《理想國篇》卷十的靈魂不朽論證是否否認靈魂具有部分？  
第10週
 11/19  D. Keyt, ‘Plato on Justice’, in A Companion to Plato, (ed.) H. H. Benson, Chichester, 2009, pp. 355.  
第11週
 11/26  R. Robinson, ‘Plato’s Separation of Reason from Desire’, Phronesis, 16, 1971, pp. 38-48.  
第12週
 12/03  R. F. Stalley, ‘Plato’s Arguments for the Division of the Reasoning and Appeitive Elements Within the Soul’, Phronesis, 20, 1975, pp. 110-128.  
第13週
 12/10  Christopher Shields, ‘Plato’s Divided Soul’, in Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide, (ed.) M. L. Mcpherran, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 147-170.  
第14週
 12/17  J. Moline, ‘Plato on the Complexity of the Psuche’, Archiv Fur Geschichte Der Philosophie 60, 1978, pp. 1-26.  
第15週
 12/24  正義與靈魂 
第16週
 12/31  課程總結；繳交期末報告 
第17週
 1/07  自主學習 
第18週
 1/14  自主學習