The dialogue Phaedo concludes that this entity is immortal, unlike the body.
A book about this concept likens it to the capacity to chop, possessed by an axe, and the power of sight, possessed by an eye. A dialogue shows how this entity is divided through a description of Leontius feeling both intense desire and dread upon coming across some corpses. A tripartite division of this concept into rational, appetitive, and spirited elements is posited in the Republic. Aristotle described the nutritive, sensitive, and rational degrees of this entity in his book De Anima. The dialogue Phaedo concludes that this entity is immortal, unlike the body. For 10 points, name this immortal part of a person, believed by Plato to undergo transmigration.
A book about this concept likens it to the capacity to chop, possessed by an axe, and the power of sight, possessed by an eye.
the soul [or psyche]