Motif
one and many virtues
one_and_many_virtues
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. 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 The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 2412-2454 confidence: high
The passage cites the question whether virtues are one or many in Plato’s Protagoras and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and answers that there are four cardinal virtues with one supreme over the rest.
The passage explicitly raises the question whether virtues are one or many and answers with four cardinal virtues and one supreme over the rest.
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