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>>21671914
Is this the image he's talking about?

>>16854113
The daimon is absolutely not one's conscience, and to consider it as such is to misunderstand the daimon, this passage is also just plain reaching in its bare assertion that the daimon is the angel, and trying to tell me what Plato would have thought after getting the concept of daimon wrong. Are you trying to tell me that Socrates was the only man in Athens with the phenomenon of conscience? You would also forget that your conscience leads you to do things, not only not to do things. Please don't cite retard schizos like this, I'd much prefer you cite Plato or Plotinus instead.
>>16854132
This passage though, now we're getting somewhere. One should recall not only the Myth of Er in this regard but also Heraclitus
>character is for man his daimon
This is a much better understanding of the phenomenon, and is in line with the Greek conception Plato was accustomed to and imitates.
The problem here though is that this doesn't show daimons to be any active force, nor does it tie into angels at all. we see Plato using this religious notion to signify certain characteristics of philosophic life (for the same reason he uses myth generally).