Motif
Body politic as a single organism
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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.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V.; lines 15994-16145 confidence: high
The State is compared to an individual body: when a finger is hurt, the whole frame, drawn toward the soul as centre, feels the hurt and sympathizes with the affected part.
The State is compared to a body in which injury to a finger is felt by the whole frame, and the whole State makes one citizen’s good or evil its own.
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