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submissiveness of the lower class and the imperiousness I suppose of the ruling class. The righteousness of the state consists in the division of labour or everybody minding his Ps and Qs. He now passes to the consideration of righteousness in the individual 434E. Just as there should be three classes in the state the defenders the soldiers and the tradespeople so there are three parts of the sould reason passion and instinct say the characters of the state are derived from those of the individuals. 435E But the question is whether these are really distinct faculties 436A. The guiding priniciple is that the same thing cannot act in contrary ways at the same time in refernce to the same thing as with the same part of itself [foreign text]. 439B When we are thirsty then and yet prefer not to drink the part of the soul that prevents us from drinking is different from the part which impells us to drink . Reason and appetite then are distinct. Of course he has not proved this. There might be