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

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was not generally accepted, 426; Xenophon's doctrine, 420 _n._; Aristotle's, _ib._; common desire for, iii. 6; attained through mental procreation, beauty the stimulus, _ib._; only metaphorical in _Symposion_, 17.

Indeterminate, Pythagorean doctrine of the, i. 11; pleasure the, iii. 348; see _Infinite_.

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, i. 157, 160 _n._; antiquity of, 159 _n._; suicide, 162 _n._; Antisthenes did not borrow from, 159 _n._; antithesis of law and nature, 162.

Indifferent, the, ii. 180, 189.

Individual, analogy to kosmical process, i. 36 _n._; tripartite division of mind, iv. 37; analogous to three classes in state, 39; analogy to state, 11, 20, 37, 79-84, 96; Hobbes on, _ib._; parallelism exaggerated, 114, 121, 124; dependent on society, 21, 121, 123; four stages of degeneracy, 79-84; proportions of happiness and misery in them, 83; happiness of, through justice, 20, 84, 90; one man can do only one thing well, 23, 33, 97, 98, 183; Xenophon on, 139 _n._

Individualism, see _Authority_.

Inductive and syllogistic dialectic, ii. 27; process of, always kept in view in dialogues of search, i. 406; illustrated in history of science, ii. 163; trial and error the natural process of the human mind, 165; length of Plato's process, 100 _n._; usefulness of negative result, 186; the mind rises from sensation to opinion, then cognition, iii. 164; verification from experience, not recognised as necessary or possible, 168.

Infanticide, iv. 43, 44, 177; Aristotle on, 202; contrast of modern sentiment, 203.

Infinite, of Anaximander, i. 5; reproduced in chaos of Anaxagoras, 54; Zeno's reductiones ad Absurdum, 93; natural coalescence of finite and, iii. 340, 346, 348 _n._; illustration from speech and music, 341; explanation insufficient, 343; see _Indeterminate_.

Ingratitude, iv. 399.

Inspiration, special, a familiar fact in Greek life, ii. 130, iii. 352, iv. 15; in rhapsode and poet, ii. 127; of rhapsode through medium of poets, 128, 129, 134; of philosopher, 383; see _Dæmon_; Plato's view, 131; the reason temporarily withdrawn, 132, iii. 11, 309 _n._; opposed to knowledge, ii. 136; right opinion of good statesmen from, 241; all existing virtue is from, 242.

Instantaneous, Plato's imagination of the, iii. 100; found no favour, 102.

Interest, forbidden, iv. 331.

_Ion_, authenticity, i. 306, ii. 124; date, i. 307, 308-9, 311, 312, 315; interlocutors, ii. 124; Ion as a rhapsode, 126; devoted himself to Homer, 127; the poetic art is one, _ib._; inspiration of rhapsodes and poets, _ib._; inspiration of Ion through Homer, 128; analogy of magnet, _ib._, 129; Plato's contrast of systematic with unsystematic procedure, _ib._; Ion does not admit his own inspiration, 132; province of rhapsode, _ib._; the rhapsode the best general, 133; exposition through divine inspiration, 134.

Ionic philosophy compared with the abstractions of Plato and Aristotle, i. 87; defect of, 88; attended to material cause only, _ib._; see _Philosophy--Pre-Sokratic_.

Islands of the Blest, ii. 416.

Isokrates, probably the half-philosopher, half-politician of _Euthydêmus_, ii. 227, iii. 35; variable feeling between, and Plato, ii. 228, 331 _n._,