Motif
Judgment and ranking of lives
judgment_and_ranking_of_lives
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.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 22317-22464 confidence: medium
A judge is asked to rank five types—royal, timocratical, oligarchical, democratical, and tyrannical—as choruses entering a stage, using virtue, vice, happiness, and misery as criteria.
Five types are staged as if in a contest and ranked by virtue, vice, happiness, and misery.
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