Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Friendship or enmity with just gods

friendship_or_enmity_with_just_gods

A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • The Republic INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. / THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I.; lines 10055-10189 confidence: medium

    Socrates obtains agreement that the gods are just; from this he concludes that the unjust is enemy of the gods and the just is their friend, while Thrasymachus declines to oppose him.

    The passage states that the gods are just, so the unjust is their enemy and the just their friend.

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