lance between the physical and the psychological. Three elements of human makeup would determine the potential and ability of each child to progress to the highest level of development-philosopher. These three sources of human behavior are desire, emotion and knowledge, “Desire, appetite, impulse, instinct-these are one; emotion, spirit, ambition, courage-these are one; knowledge, thought, intellect, reason-these are one” (Durant 22). Desire comes from the loins, emotion from the heart and intellect from the head. The highest achieving and most moral human being to Plato would be the one who could balance these sources of human behavior into a harmonious whole, whereby each source added beneficially to the overall behavior of the individual.
Individuals who act from desire only are restless, acquisitive souls involved in material pursuits and the control and manipulation of money and others through it. Then there are those whose emotions control them to such a degree that they a
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