ABSTRACT
To the extent that the good city reflects the good soul, its organization implies that within the soul, reason pursues the longrange satisfaction of the desires. The world is such that most desires have to go unsatisfied, and the ones that do get satisfied bring undesirable effects. The greatest satisfaction of the desires therefore demands that they be controlled. But desires express themselves unconditionally, lacking as they do the ability to make and impose conditions on themselves. So reason acts on behalf of the whole person, but the person (we are told up to this point) is moved by a cluster of appetitive desires; and it is these that reason serves.
