Full Idea
If someone is thirsty but something is making the mind resist the pull of its thirst, isn't this bound to be a different part of the mind from the thirsty part?
Clarification
'Mind' is the Greek word 'psuché', which covers mind and consciousness and life
Gist of Idea
The mind has parts, because we have inner conflicts
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 439b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.149
A Reaction
For Descartes there is one mind pulled by appetite and the 'natural light'. For Hume they don't seem to be 'parts' of anything. For Fodor there is an integrated team of modules. I like Fodor, and good integration is virtue.