Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4

The Dialogue, entitled Leges--De Legibus--The Laws--distributed into twelve books, besides its Appendix the Epinomis, and longer than any other of the Platonic compositions--is...

The Republic is the longest of all the Platonic dialogues, except the dialogue De Legibus. It consists of ten books, each of them as long as any one of the dialogues which we ha...

Though the Republic of Plato appears as a substantive composition, not including in itself any promise of an intended sequel--yet the Timæus and Kritias are introduced by Plato...

Comparing the two doctrines, we see that Plato, though he did not reject altogether, as Epikurus did, the agency of the Gods in the universe,--restricted it here nevertheless so...

The preceding Chapter has described, in concise abstract, that splendid monument of Plato's genius, which passes under the name of the [Greek: Politei/a] or Republic. It is undo...

In my last Chapter, I discussed the manner in which Plato had endeavoured to solve the ethical problem urged upon him by Glaukon and Adeimantus. But this is not the entire purpo...

Books, writing as an art, iii. 27; is it teachable by system? 28; worthless for teaching, ii. 136, 233 _n._, iii. 33-35, 49, 52, 54, 337 _n._; may _remind_, 50, 53; censorship,...

Idea of Good compared to sun, 63, 64; known to the rulers alone, 212; what Good is, is unsolved, 213; mythe of Hades, 94; compared with _Lachês_, 138; _Charmidês_, 136, 138; _Pr...

intelligence postulated by the Hedonists, iii. 374; analogy of intelligence and pleasure, 360; intelligence more cognate to good than pleasure is, 348, 361; pain, disturbance of...

Sokrates' mental obstetric, 112; attained only by dialectic, i. 396; its test, power of going through a Sokratic cross-examination, _ib._, ii. 64; genesis of, 391; _reminiscence...

virtue taught by parents, &c., 272; quantity acquired depends on individual aptitude, _ib._; analogy of learning the vernacular, 273; theory of punishment, 270; combines the two...

Bad musical exhibitions and poetry forbidden by the lawgiver. Songs and dances must be consecrated by public authority. Prizes at the musical festivals to be awarded by select j...

Justice consists in doing good to your friend, if really a good man: hurt to your enemy, with the like proviso. Sokrates affirms that the just man will do no hurt to any one. De...

different points of view in Plato, ii. 167; modern theories, intuition, 348; moral sense, not recognised in _Gorgias_ and _Protagoras_, _ib._; permanent and transient elements o...

virtue a right estimate of pleasure and pain, ii. 293, 305; courage a just estimate of things terrible, 307; false estimates of pleasures habitual, iii. 353; true pleasures admi...

Aristippus, works, i. 111, 116; ethical, not transcendental, 122; discourse of Sokrates with, 175; the choice of Herakles, 177; Sokrates on the Good and Beautiful, 184; good is...

Ontology and physics, radically distinct points of view, i. 23 _n._; the science of Ens, first appears in the Eleates, 22; reconciliation of physics with, attempted unsuccessful...

Guardians, characteristics, iv. 23, 25; drunkenness unbecoming, 298 _n._; consist of men and women, 41, 46; syssitia, 359; communism of, _ib._, 44, 140, 169; maintenance of city...

&c. (Stallbaum, Prolegg. p. xliv.) Aristophanes Grammaticus classified both Leges and Epinomis as Plato's works. The arguments produced in Zeller's Platonische Studien, to show...

Abstract, dialectic deals with, rhetoric with concrete, ii. 52, 53; and concrete aggregates, _ib._; terms, debates about meaning, iii. 76-78; different views of Aristotle and Pl...

Opinion of Plato respecting the capacities of women, and the training proper for women, are maintained in the Leges, as well as in the Republic. Ancient legends harmonising with...

kosmos a living being and a god, 220, 223; Time began with, 227; Demiurgus produces kosmos by persuading Necessity, 220, 238; process of demiurgic construction, iii. 409 _n._, i...

_Theætêtus_, date, i. 307-10, 313, 315, 324, 325 _n._, ii. 228 _n._, iii. 111 _n._; purpose, 167 _n._, 176; value, 177; great advance in analytical psychology, 164; negative res...

love of subjects obtainable by good government, 220; _Cyropædia_, a romance, blending Persian and Spartan customs, 222; compared with _Leges_, iv. 319; contents, i. 223-35; his...

praised in _Phædrus_, 35; compared with Lysias, _ib._ 38; his school at Athens, 36; teaching of, iv. 150 _n._; as Sophist, i. 212 _n._; teachableness of virtue, ii. 240 _n._; ag...

Vision, doctrine of Empedokles, i. 45; caused by images from objects, Demokritus, 78; Plato's conception of the act of, iii. 129 _n._, 159; Plato's theory, iv. 236; Aristotle on...

Second Argument of Plato to prove the happiness of the just man--He now recalls his previous concession, and assumes that the just man will receive just treatment and esteem fro...

Indian philosophy, compared with Greek, i. 107, 378 _n._, 160 _n._, 162; analogy of Plato's doctrine of the soul, ii. 389 _n._, 426 _n._; Gymnosophists, compared with Diogenes,...

Plato's antithesis of soul to, ii. 384; soul prior to and more powerful than, iv. 386, 419, 421; relation of mind to organs of, iii. 159; Aristotle, 389 _n._; Monboddo, iv. 387...

kinds of, i. _xii_. _n._; of like by like, 44, iv. 227; Demokritus' theory, i. 72, 76, 80; Zeno, 98; Gorgias the Leontine, 104; Kyrenaics, 199, 204; false persuasion of, the nat...

self-regarding doctrine of Sokrates, ii. 349, 354 _n._; order of problems as conceived by Sokrates, 299; to do, worse than to suffer, evil, 326, 332, 338, 359; no man voluntaril...

Temperance, [Greek: sôphrosu/nê], ii. 153 _n._; as treated by Plato and Aristotle, 170; is self-knowledge, 155; and with justice the condition of happiness and freedom, 12; the...

dialectician alone can teach, iii. 37; _idéal_ unrealisable, 51; books (q. v.) and lectures of little use, 34; proper use of dialectic and rhetoric, 40; of rhetoricians, practic...

influence of public beliefs, generated without any ostensible author, i. 424; Sokrates' judgment on poets, expanded, ii. 129; compared with _Gorgias_, 362 _n._, 368; _Phædon_, 4...