Motif
Awakening from dreamlike ignorance
awakening_from_dreamlike_ignorance
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Esoteric and Hidden Knowledge. 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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 3983-4011 confidence: medium
For one who is not a dialectician, “life is but a sleepy dream,” and many die before being well awakened.
The non-dialectician's life is described as a sleepy dream, with awakening implied as the effect of dialectical understanding.
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