Obedience
idea · 3 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
obedience · disobey · obey · obeyed · abide by them · commands · compulsory obedience · do what I desire · eager to serve · heed
in the texts
Cyropaedia
The trained readiness to follow rulers, officers, and law, contrasted with human tendencies to conspire against rulers.
and it greatly conduces to this also that they see their elders implicitly obeying their officers.
And your father is the first one to do what is ordered by the State and to accept what is decreed, and his standard is not his will but the law.
And then again, we have never known of a herd conspiring against its keeper, either to refuse obedience to him or to deny him the privilege of enjoying the profits that accrue.
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The duty of subjects to heed the king's counsels, commands, laws, and authority.
for if they learn to submit to authority they will be able to exercise authority over many;
For, once these claims have been established, who will not condemn himself to the severest punishment if he fails to heed my counsels and commands?
Regard my words as your law, and try to abide by them, knowing that those of you who most faithfully do what I desire will most quickly be able to live as they themselves desire.
Economics
The trained responsiveness of people and animals to commands, cultivated by incentives, punishment, and instruction.
Oh, but it is certainly not a laughing matter, Ischomachus.
But in dealing with slaves the training thought suitable for wild animals is also a very effective way of teaching obedience;
Well now, Socrates, other creatures learn obedience in two ways—by being punished when they try to disobey, and by being rewarded when they are eager to serve you.