PLATO'S VIEW
OF A
TRIPARTITE SELF


1. appetitive (the desiring)
2. emotional (or the "high-spirited," enthusiastic)
3. rational

to which we might add the bodily or physical for a four-part theory.



Compare the Upanishadic theory of five bodies:

1. physical
2. vital
3. sensory mental
4. higher mental
5. blissful