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to some kind of supervening moral power.
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And again, recall this is the theme raised
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at the beginning of Book II by Adeimantus,
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who puts forward an idea of self-control,
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or what he calls self-guardianship as his goal.
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How can we protect ourselves from the passion for injustice?
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And one of the things Socrates emphasizes is
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that the most powerful of those passions,
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the most powerful passion is that Socratic passion
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that he calls thumos,
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or what our translator has as spiritedness, anger,
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maybe what biblical translators call heart,