Motif
protection from corrupting images
protection_from_corrupting_images
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Idolatry and False Worship. 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 PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 12669-12786 confidence: high
Socrates asks whether poets and other artists should be prohibited from exhibiting vice, intemperance, meanness, and indecency, lest citizens be corrupted by growing up amid images of moral deformity.
Socrates proposes excluding artistic representations of vice so that guardians do not absorb moral corruption from their surroundings.
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