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Record W4403285547 · doi:10.1163/18725473-bja10047

Proclus on the Tripartite Soul

2024· article· en· W4403285547 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueThe International Journal of the Platonic Tradition · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIslamic Studies and History
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyAncient historyHistory

Abstract

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Abstract The seventh essay of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic is devoted to Plato’s account of the tripartite soul and its virtues. Drawing on Plato’s description of the work of creation by the Demiurge and the younger gods in Timaeus , Proclus argues that the lower parts of the soul are images of the highest part, and that the essence of the human being is found only in the rational part of the soul. The other two parts are merely images of the rational part. In this paper, I explore Proclus’ account of how mortal psychical functioning in the spirited and appetitive parts of the human soul are supposed to image rationality. Further, I consider how the essence of a human being, shown to be the subject of calculative or discursive reasoning, is supposed by Proclus to be related to intellect.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.020
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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