Motif
virtue as health of the soul
virtue_as_health_of_the_soul
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV.; lines 15157-15248 confidence: high
“virtue is the health and beauty and well-being of the soul, and vice the disease and weakness and deformity”
The passage explicitly identifies virtue with health, beauty, and well-being of the soul and vice with disease, weakness, and deformity.
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