The allegory of the souls in Phaedrus attempts to explain a basic conflict in human nature. What is that nature, and is Plato’s description accurate, even if it is couched in metaphor?

We have difficulty in balancing desires, needs, wants, and how to achieve the things we desire, need, and want without touching some sort of conflict of decison. Plato speaks of this through two deferent metaphors including a metaphor of a charioteer, and two horses. I understood this metaphor to be one horse representing one part of the mind and soul and the other horse representing another part of the mind and soul As the charioteer needs to master the control of the two horses so they have complete balance and stability.  While the the charioteer is representing the people itself, while some people have trouble controlling one horse other find it easier to control but have trouble controlling the other horse.

The nature that Plato is trying to instill in this writing is that us as humans will go after what we want whether its food, drinks, money, sex anything. As in the metaphor above we can sometimes have trouble controlling one side of our mind and can sometimes get us off the right path.. I do see some truth in Platos passage but also do see some downfalls.