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Ideas for 'Transworld Identity or worldbound Individuals?', 'The History of the Jews' and 'Phaedrus'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

23997	Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie]
	Full Idea: Plato had a conception of the emotions and our bodily appetites as being like wild horses, to be harnassed and controlled by reason.
	From: report of Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE]) by Peter Goldie - The Emotions 4 'Education'
	A reaction: This seems to make Plato the patriarch of puritanism. See Symposium, as well as Phaedrus. But bringing up children can often seem like taming wild beasts.