Motif
Inner wild beast released when reason sleeps
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A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family The divided soul and self-conflict. 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 VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 21842-21983 confidence: high
“when the reasoning and human and ruling power is asleep; then the wild beast within us... goes forth to satisfy his desires”
The passage explicitly describes a lawless wild-beast nature that rises when the reasoning power is asleep and peers out in sleep even in good people.
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