TTTThis is a healthy, “aristocratic” soul with reason in control of the spirit and the passions.
Souls is a theme I started to work on in the middle of 2024. The goal is to represent different philosophers’ conceptions of the human soul or mind pictorially. The first five painting are of the five distinct soul types Plato describes in his Republic. Basically, there are three parts of the soul, each of which can rule the whole soul: Reason (to logistikon), spirit or temperament (ho thymos), and passion (he epithymia)
The timocratic soul is the first degeneration from best, “aristocratic” soul. She loves victory and is easily angered. She bows to the powerful and is hard on slaves.Lorem Ipsum...The oligarchic soul is a degeneration of the timocratic soul and loves material wealth. She is ruled by her passionate part, which, however, is primarily interested in satisfying necessary desires. She greedy but thrifty.The democratic soul is unstable, a kind of combination of every other kind of soul. It is This the tyrannical soul, a degeneration from the democratic soul. Reaon and spirit are completely subdued by passion,Savior 2022Machine and Nature I 2000Machine and Nature II 2022Only Future, No Past 2022Slow Motion 2022Hopeful 2023The Pre-Established Harmony of Everything 1999Chaos 2022