Motif
communal family order replacing private parent-child recognition
communal_family_order_replacing_private_parent_child_recognition
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. 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 15706-15845 confidence: high
The speaker says one difficulty about women has been escaped like a wave, then introduces a greater one: guardians' wives and children are to be common, and no parent is to know his child nor any child his parent.
The proposed law makes wives and children common and removes mutual recognition between parent and child within the guardian class.
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