Motif
personal deity and impersonal principle as parallel expressions
personal_deity_and_impersonal_principle_as_parallel_expressions
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Cosmos and Cosmology. 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 3672-3734 confidence: high
The idea of good is described as a sacred form replacing old mythology; as unity, truth, light, cause, universal reason, life, knowledge, and power; as reached through mathematical sciences; and as related to the God of the Timaeus as impersonal philosophy to personal mythology.
The God of the Timaeus and the idea of good are described as aspects of the same, differing as personal from impersonal and as mythological from philosophical language.
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