Motif
numerical measure of moral distance
numerical_measure_of_moral_distance
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
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5259-5329 confidence: medium
“the king is 729 times more happy than the tyrant” and this is “NEARLY equal to the number of days and nights in a year.”
The passage gives a figure in which the king is 729 times happier than the tyrant and relates the number to days and nights in a year.
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