Motif
failure to read signs of crisis
failure_to_read_signs_of_crisis
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Dream Interpretation, Divination, and Omen Responses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
-
The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7392-7476 confidence: medium
The philosopher may fail in routine politics; the ordinary statesman may fail in crises, hearing distant thunder, looking backward, and trying to stem the rising tide of revolution with old maxims.
The statesman cannot perceive the signs of the times and tries to resist the rising tide of revolution with inherited maxims.
read in the book →