Motif
Ordered correspondence of State and soul
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Civic Order and the Body Politic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV.; lines 14845-14992 confidence: high
The passage argues that passion or spirit is a third element, distinct from desire and reason, naturally auxiliary to reason; children, brute animals, and a Homeric line about smiting the breast and rebuking the soul are cited.
The passage explicitly aligns three classes in the State with three principles in the individual and defines justice in both as each part doing its own work.
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