Motif
False teachers serving tyranny
false_teachers_serving_tyranny
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Falsehood and False Teaching. 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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 6035-6121 confidence: high
Poets are described as representatives of falsehood and feigning, like sophists and rhetoricians, and as false priests, false prophets, lying spirits, enchanters, and friends of tyrants.
The passage repeatedly links poets, sophists, rhetoricians, and later false teachers with deception and with the maintenance of tyranny or despotism.
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