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grbs-5241	Vander Waerdt, Paul A.	The Peripatetic Interpretation of Plato’s Tripartite Psychology	1985	20	.pdf	application/pdf	11492	468	55	WAERT, VANDER P. A., The Peripatetic Interpretation of Plato's Tripartite Psychology , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 26:3 (1985:Autumn) p.283 The Peripatetic Interpretation of Plato's Tripartite Psychology P. A. Vander Waerdt T HE PERIPATETIC author of the Magna Maralia begins his ac­ count of moral virtue with a doxography in which he criticizes Pythagoras for referring virtue to number, and Socrates for identifying the virtues with E1nUTfjl-Wt and ignoring the alogical part of the soul, thus doing away with 7Ta8o~ and ~8o~ (l182alO-30).1 He then attributes to Plato bipartition of the soul, of which he approves (l182a26), and proceeds to criticize him for confusing investigation of moral virtue with that of the good. A number of bipartite divisions, drawing upon Plato's tripartition and differing from one another in significant ways, date from this period: the anonymous version of bipartition preserved in the Topics (298f infra); that of Xenocrates (n.5 infra); that advanced in such E~WTEPLKOL A.O')'OL as the Protrepticus and De justitia; and later, that of Aristotle's writings on 1ToA.LTLKJ}, which explicitly draw upon these E~WTEPLKOi A.O')'OL (Eth.	cache/grbs-5241.pdf	txt/grbs-5241.txt