Motif
appearance contrasted with immutable reality
appearance_contrasted_with_immutable_reality
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V.; lines 17068-17208 confidence: medium
The speaker addresses the lover of beautiful sights, who treats beauty as manifold rather than one; many beautiful, just, and holy things are said also to appear ugly, unjust, or unholy.
The passage contrasts the many beautiful and just things perceived by lovers of sights with absolute, eternal, and immutable realities known by lovers of wisdom.
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