Motif
ordered union contrasted with licentiousness
ordered_union_contrasted_with_licentiousness
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Family and Kinship Order. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Republic BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV. / BOOK V.; lines 15706-15845 confidence: medium
Glaucon names a necessity known to lovers; the speaker says the matter must proceed orderly, licentiousness is unholy and forbidden, and matrimony must be made sacred in the highest degree, with what is most beneficial deemed sacred.
The passage distinguishes regulated, sacred matrimony from licentiousness, which rulers are to forbid in the city.
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