What Moves You? The Power of Emotions
How Our Feelings Impact Our Thoughts: Reviewing ‘Emotional’ by Leonard Mlodinow
In the dialogue Phaedrus, Plato presents the soul as a charioteer with a two horses. He floats this analogy in an extended discussion about regulating desire. “Only one of his horses is thoroughly noble and good,” says Plato, “while the other is thoroughly the opposite . . . scarcely to be controlled with a combination of whip and goad” (246b, 253e).
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