Motif
bad rule through wealth replacing skill
bad_rule_through_wealth_replacing_skill
A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship 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 V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 20629-20813 confidence: medium
Socrates asks what would happen if pilots were chosen by property and a better poor pilot were refused permission to steer; the answer is that they would shipwreck.
The pilot analogy states that choosing by property rather than ability would lead to shipwreck, and the city is said to be the strongest case of this defect.
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