Fortenbaugh connects the development of Plato’s conception of emo- tion with a transition from a tripartite view of the soul towards a bipartite moral psychology. Plato began to regard emotions as a special class of cognitive phenomena open to reasoned persuasion in a way that bodily desires are not, and, furthermore, he tried to develop a distinction be- tween emotional response and reasoned reflection as two types of cogni- tive activities. Emotions were sharply distinguished from bodily sensations and drives, and the cognitive phenomena were divided into calculations and reflections, on the one hand, and pleasant and painful emotions, on the other