Motif
Communal kinship as civic unity
communal_kinship_as_civic_unity
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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1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V.; lines 16147-16288 confidence: high
The speaker asks whether family names such as father should imply real care, reverence, duty, obedience, and moral-religious seriousness; the respondent rejects merely verbal kinship.
Shared women, children, family names, pleasures, pains, and interests are presented as producing harmony and concord in the city.
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