"Tripertitam animam idem dicit: primam eius rationabilem esse partem,aliam excandescentiam vel inritabilitatem, tertiam adpetitus; eadem cupiditatem possumus nuncupare."
This initially had me confused, since Latin uses "partem excandescentiam", which I think really should be the emotional area. Anyway, there is a division of the mind into (1)logic, (2) emotion (3) desire. I prefer to apply psychology here, so intellect, emotion and the ego, I think, fit well.
Platonists teach the regio rationalism "must" dominate emotion and desire (or ego). It teaches how emotion can bias the intellect, so that decision making is blurred by emotions, and not analytical.
In clinical psychology, delusion is caused when rational thinking is dominated by a preferred, desired reality. Reality is what I want it to be, not what cold logic deduces.
Most people don't dominate thought via the regio rationalis and, in fact, modern culture stresses emotion over logic, via "likes" and "reputation".
I should stress, I have found some short-comings in this tripertitam philosophy, since in practice it doesn't include complex neurological pathologies. Put simply, we can't just "cure" personality disorders by the stress of logic and reason. However, this platonic system does offer something of value and seems to have found it's way into Eastern martial arts.
This does become far more complex as Platonism develops the initial basis of the philosophy.
This initially had me confused, since Latin uses "partem excandescentiam", which I think really should be the emotional area. Anyway, there is a division of the mind into (1)logic, (2) emotion (3) desire. I prefer to apply psychology here, so intellect, emotion and the ego, I think, fit well.
Platonists teach the regio rationalism "must" dominate emotion and desire (or ego). It teaches how emotion can bias the intellect, so that decision making is blurred by emotions, and not analytical.
In clinical psychology, delusion is caused when rational thinking is dominated by a preferred, desired reality. Reality is what I want it to be, not what cold logic deduces.
Most people don't dominate thought via the regio rationalis and, in fact, modern culture stresses emotion over logic, via "likes" and "reputation".
I should stress, I have found some short-comings in this tripertitam philosophy, since in practice it doesn't include complex neurological pathologies. Put simply, we can't just "cure" personality disorders by the stress of logic and reason. However, this platonic system does offer something of value and seems to have found it's way into Eastern martial arts.
This does become far more complex as Platonism develops the initial basis of the philosophy.