One of Schopenhauer's fundamental theses is that sexual pleasure is Nature's means to stimulate Reproduction. On that basis, the long and continuing tradition of treating sexual desire as a merely personal phenomenon is erroneous; rather, it a manifestation, in a Person, of a Species drive. But, despite being the prototype of a critic of Empiricism, Plato takes sexual desire at face value, classifying it as one of the drives of the Appetitive portion of the Person-Soul. He thereby misses an opportunity to systematically link the Person-Soul to a Polis-Soul, a World-Soul, or to any other trans-personal Soul, from which different concepts of Happiness and Justice might be developed.
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