batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l14689-l14843
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l14689-l14843
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III. / BOOK IV.; lines 14689-14843
start: '14689'
end: '14843'
translation: The Republic
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A dialectical passage analyzes desire through opposites and relative terms.
The speaker distinguishes simple thirst as desire for drink alone from qualified
forms of thirst. He argues that if something pulls a thirsty soul away from drink,
it must be different from the thirsty principle that draws it toward drink, using
an archer's two hands pushing and pulling a bow as an analogy. The respondent
agrees that a person may be thirsty and yet unwilling to drink.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker lists assent and dissent, desire and aversion, attraction and
repulsion as opposites.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Hunger and thirst are selected as obvious examples of desires, with food as
the object of hunger and drink as the object of thirst.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker distinguishes simple thirst, which desires drink alone, from qualified
thirst, which may desire cold, warm, much, or little drink depending on accompanying
conditions.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker explains that relative terms may be simple or qualified, and that
if one term of a relation is qualified, the other is qualified also.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The thirsty soul, insofar as it is thirsty, desires drink and tries to obtain
it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: If something pulls a thirsty soul away from drink, the speaker says it must
be different from the thirsty principle that draws the soul toward drink.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: 'The speaker uses the archer''s hands as an example: one hand pushes the bow
and the other pulls it.'
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The respondent agrees that a person can be thirsty and yet unwilling to drink.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: dialectical speaker
description: The first-person speaker who questions the respondent and develops
the argument about desire, relative terms, and the soul.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: respondent
description: The unnamed respondent who agrees with the speaker's distinctions and
examples.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: thirsty soul
description: The soul considered insofar as it is thirsty and desires drink.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: thirsty principle
description: The principle described as drawing the thirsty soul toward drink.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: opposing pull away from drink
description: An unspecified factor or principle that pulls the thirsty soul away
from drink.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: archer
description: An illustrative archer whose hands are said not to push and pull the
bow in the same way at the same time.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: questioning instructor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker frames distinctions through questions and explanatory examples.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: assenting interlocutor
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The respondent repeatedly agrees with the speaker's statements, including
the final example of thirst without willingness to drink.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: desiring subject
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The soul of the thirsty one desires drink and tries to obtain it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: attractive desire-principle
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The thirsty principle is described as drawing the soul toward drink.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: repelling or restraining factor
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Something is supposed that pulls the thirsty soul away from drink.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: analogy figure
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The archer is used to illustrate contrary actions assigned to different hands
rather than to the same part.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: thirst
literal_form: thirst as desire for drink
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: drink
literal_form: the object desired by thirst
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: opposite movements
literal_form: attraction and repulsion, drawing toward drink and pulling away from
drink
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: archer's bow
literal_form: bow pushed by one hand and pulled by the other
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: classification of desire and opposition
summary: The speaker establishes pairs of opposites and treats hunger and thirst
as obvious desires with corresponding objects, food and drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: simple and qualified thirst
summary: The speaker argues that thirst in itself is for drink alone, while qualified
thirst is for qualified drink such as cold, warm, much, or little drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: conflict within the thirsty soul
summary: The speaker states that the thirsty soul desires drink, and that anything
pulling it away from drink must differ from the thirsty principle drawing it toward
drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: archer analogy and admitted case
summary: The speaker compares contrary actions to an archer whose one hand pushes
and another pulls the bow, and the respondent agrees that a thirsty person may
be unwilling to drink.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: division of the soul by opposing impulses
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The passage treats attraction and repulsion as opposites, then argues that
a thirsty soul drawn toward drink and pulled away from drink must involve different
principles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is philosophical argument rather than narrative myth; the
motif label captures a pattern of internal duality rather than a mythic episode.
- id: motif:2
label: desire restrained by a counterforce
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A thirsty soul is described as desiring drink, while another factor may pull
it away, and a person may be thirsty yet unwilling to drink.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The restraining factor is not named in this excerpt, and the passage does
not narrate an enacted conflict.
- id: motif:3
label: instruction through bodily analogy
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker uses the archer's two hands pushing and pulling a bow to clarify
a distinction about contrary actions and parts.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy term 'wisdom' is broad; the passage supports dialectical
teaching but not a specific wisdom myth.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 14698-14706
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks whether “assent and dissent, desire and aversion,
attraction and repulsion” are opposites, and the respondent agrees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 14708-14727
quote_or_summary: The speaker selects hunger and thirst as obvious desires and identifies
food as the object of hunger and drink as the object of thirst.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 14729-14743
quote_or_summary: The speaker argues that simple thirst desires drink alone, while
thirst accompanied by heat, cold, or degree desires cold, warm, much, or little
drink.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 14745-14819
quote_or_summary: The speaker develops the rule that relative terms may be simple
or qualified, using examples such as greater and less, double and half, hot and
cold, and sciences with particular objects.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 14829-14832
quote_or_summary: "“the soul of the thirsty one, in so far as he is thirsty, desires
only drink; for this he yearns and tries to obtain it”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 14834-14839
quote_or_summary: If something pulls a thirsty soul away from drink, the speaker
says it must be different from the thirsty principle that draws the soul to drink,
since the same thing cannot act in contrary ways about the same object at the
same time and in the same part.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 14841-14843
quote_or_summary: 'The speaker compares the point to an archer: one should not say
that the archer''s hands push and pull the bow at the same time, but that one
hand pushes and the other pulls.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: line 14843 and following sentence in supplied passage
quote_or_summary: The respondent agrees that “a man” may be thirsty and “yet unwilling
to drink.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is clear for literal philosophical observations. Motif assignments
are cautious because the excerpt is argumentative rather than mythic. No comparison
claims were added because the passage itself does not compare this pattern to
another tradition or motif family beyond its own analogy.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Taxonomy references were limited to available refs and applied only where directly supportable.
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