Motif
sacred immutability of ancestral law
sacred_immutability_of_ancestral_law
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Revealed Command and Divine Authorization. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 7874-7955 confidence: medium
Fundamental laws are described as not changing with time, necessary for the state’s salvation, sanctioned by heaven, and impious to alter; this is linked to Plato’s zeal against religious or political innovators.
The salvation of the state is said to depend on maintaining fundamental laws unchanged; later enactments are ascribed to the original legislator.
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