batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l5400-l5481
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-republic-jowett-gutenberg-l5400-l5481
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5400-5481
start: '5400'
end: '5481'
translation: The Republic
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Jowett's analysis summarizes Plato's account of pleasure, the contrast
between royal and tyrannical life expressed through the number 729, and the closing
movement of the Republic toward a heavenly pattern and the anticipation of a future
life.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage says Plato is not opposed to all pleasure but wants each part
of the soul to have its natural satisfaction.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage distinguishes pleasures without antecedent pains, necessary and
unnecessary pleasures, and a class of wild-beast pleasures.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage says Plato ranks pleasures of reason above pleasures of sense
and emotion, and says reason can judge lower pleasures while lower parts cannot
judge pleasures of reason.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage states that the interval separating king from tyrant, and royal
from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage describes Plato as using a numerical progression and geometrical
figure to express the distance between royal and tyrannical life.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The passage says the pattern in heaven takes the place of the city of philosophers
on earth near the close of the Republic.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says the distant kingdom is also the rule of human life, and that
this prepares for a revelation of future life in the following book.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage says the ideal of politics is to be realized in the individual.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Plato
description: Philosopher whose account of pleasure, numerical formula, and ideal
political pattern are being analyzed.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Aristotle
description: Later philosopher named as repeating distinctions and making further
technical classifications from Plato's analysis.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: king
description: Figure associated with royal pleasure and contrasted with the tyrant.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: tyrant
description: Figure associated with tyrannical pleasure and separated from the king
by the numerical interval 729.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: oligarch
description: Political type described as removed in the third degree from the royal
and aristocratical and used in the computation leading to 729.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: philosophers
description: Figures associated with the city of philosophers on earth, which is
replaced by the pattern in heaven in the analysis.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: individual
description: The human person in whom the ideal of politics is said to be realized.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: philosophical source figure
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage attributes the analyzed doctrines and formulas to Plato.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: later classifier
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage says Aristotle repeats and develops distinctions from Plato's
analysis.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: royal exemplar
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The king represents royal pleasure and is set above the tyrant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: tyrannical contrast figure
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The tyrant represents tyrannical pleasure and loss relative to the king.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: intermediate political type in computation
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The oligarch is used as a degree in the calculation of the numerical interval.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: earthly philosophical community
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The city of philosophers on earth is mentioned as replaced by the pattern
in heaven.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: site of ethical-political realization
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The ideal of politics is said to be realized in the individual.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: number 729
literal_form: 729, the cube of 9
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: geometrical moral measure
literal_form: line, square, cube, and geometrical figure used for the soul and pleasures
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: pattern in heaven
literal_form: pattern which is in heaven
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: city of philosophers on earth
literal_form: city of philosophers on earth
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: distant kingdom
literal_form: distant kingdom
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Ordering of pleasures
summary: The passage reviews Plato's moderate account of pleasure, including divisions
among pleasures and the superiority of pleasures of reason over those of sense
and emotion.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Numerical separation of king and tyrant
summary: The passage explains the number 729 as a formula expressing the distance
between royal and tyrannical pleasures and describes the calculation through geometrical
comparison.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Heavenly pattern and individual realization
summary: The passage says the heavenly pattern replaces the earthly city of philosophers,
becomes a rule for human life, and anticipates a future-life revelation while
locating political ideality in the individual.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: hierarchy of pleasures governed by reason
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage ranks pleasures of reason over pleasures of sense and emotion
and presents reason as capable of judging lower pleasures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: This is philosophical analysis rather than a narrative mythic episode.
- id: motif:2
label: moral distance between king and tyrant
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
- duality
basis: The king and tyrant are contrasted through the interval of 729 and through
royal versus tyrannical pleasures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage concerns ethical and mathematical comparison, not a full royal
legitimation myth.
- id: motif:3
label: heavenly ideal as rule for earthly life
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says the pattern in heaven replaces the city of philosophers
on earth and serves as the rule of human life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches this motif; the statement
appears in Jowett's analytical introduction.
- id: motif:4
label: anticipation of future life
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage says the final note prepares for the revelation of a future life
in the following book.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: This passage only anticipates the future-life theme and does not narrate
the future-life revelation itself.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly uses the phrase 'One day in thy courts is better than
a thousand' as an analogy for expressing a vast difference in value between two
lives.
claim_level: same_function
target: biblical value-comparison formula
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is Jowett's illustrative comparison, not evidence within the passage
for historical contact or common inheritance.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage explicitly compares the distant kingdom that rules human life
with the saying that the kingdom of God is within you.
claim_level: same_function
target: Christian inner-kingdom saying
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is made by the commentator and should not be treated
as a claim that Plato's text derives from the Christian saying.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage compares Plato's distinctions about pleasure with Aristotle's
later technical distinctions, presenting Aristotle as developing Plato's analysis.
claim_level: same_function
target: Aristotelian classification of pleasures
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is philosophical and classificatory, not a mythic motif
parallel.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 5400-5420
quote_or_summary: Plato is described as moderate about pleasure, not rejecting all
pleasure, and distinguishing pleasures such as smell, hope, necessary and unnecessary
pleasure, and wild-beast pleasures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 5420-5435
quote_or_summary: The passage says Plato treats sensual pleasures as relatively
unreal, ranks pleasures of reason above sense and emotion, and says reason can
judge lower pleasures while lower soul-parts cannot judge reason's pleasures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 5440-5445
quote_or_summary: '"The number of the interval which separates the king from the
tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 5445-5465
quote_or_summary: The passage describes Plato as using a progression of numbers
and a geometrical figure to express the immeasurable interval between royal and
tyrannical life.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 5474-5481
quote_or_summary: Near the end of the Republic, the pattern in heaven replaces the
city of philosophers on earth; the distant kingdom is also the rule of human life,
prepares for future life, and the political ideal is realized in the individual.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 5466-5473
quote_or_summary: The passage explains the mathematical groundwork of comparing
cubes, then says the oligarch and tyrant are placed by degrees so that the terms
are counted toward 9 and then cubed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 5454-5458
quote_or_summary: '"One day in thy courts is better than a thousand"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/republic-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is analytical and philosophical rather than a mythic narrative;
motif labels are therefore cautious and mostly pattern-level.
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: |-
No available taxonomy symbol refs were directly supported by this passage.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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