The King and the Soul

Plato’s chariot of the soul as the metaphysical blueprint of empire and sacred politics

Alexander Dugin explains Plato’s image of the soul and its political meaning.

Plato proceeds from the fundamental principle of a direct homology between the cosmos, the state, and the structure of the soul.

In the dialogue Phaedrus, he describes this threefold structure of the soul through the following images:

Let us liken the soul to the combined power o…