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The volume offers a guided abstract and commentary on Plato's Republic, tracing its inquiry into the nature of justice through the opening debates among Kephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, Glaukon, Adeimantus, and Socrates. It outlines competing definitions of justice, Socratic refutations, and the construction of an ideal city to illuminate individual virtue. The analysis sketches Plato's psychology and epistemology, distinguishing Forms and scientific knowledge from opinion, and treats education, the rule of philosopher-rulers, poetic censorship, and the soul's immortality. Throughout, argument and exposition are summarized to show Plato's claim that justice constitutes human happiness and injustice breeds misery.

Dianoia, Nous and, two grades of intelligence, iv. 66.

Dikæarchus, ii. 425 n.

Dikasts, opposition of feeling between Sokrates and, i. 375;
influence of dikastery on growth of Dialectic, 385.

Diodorus Kronus, doctrine of Power, i. 140;
defended by Hobbes, 143;
hypothetical propositions, 145;
time, difficulties of Now, ib.;
motion, 146;
Aristotle nearly coincides with, ib.;
and Hobbes, ib.;
his death, 147.

Diogenes of Apollonia, life and doctrines, i. 60;
air his primordial element, 61;
many properties of, ib.;
physiology, 60 n., 62;
cosmology and meteorology, 64;
often followed Herakleitus, ib. n.;
anticipated modern doctrine of aerolithes, ib.;
Agreement with Anaxagoras, 65;
fundamental tenet, agreement with Aristotle and Demokritus, 69 n.;
theory of vision, iv. 237 n.

Diogenes of Sinôpê, i. 152;
works, 155;
doctrines, 154;
Sokrates’ precepts fullest carried out by, 160;
asceticism, 157;
compared with Indian Gymnosophists and Selli, ib., 160 n., 163 n.;
with Aristippus, 190;
Communism of wives, 189 n.;
opposed Platonic ideas, 163;
the first protest of Nominalism against Realism, 164.

Diogenes Laertius, i. 291 n., 294.

Dion Chrysostom, i. 112 n.

Dionysius, the elder, Aristippus’ intercourse with, i. 193;
visited by Plato, 351;
the younger, visited by Plato, 258, 355;
expedition of Dion against, 259.

Dionysius Hal., on Apology, i. 411 n.;
rhetorical powers of Plato and Demosthenes, iii. 407 n.;
rivalry of Plato and Lysias, 411 n.;
contrasts Plato’s with Σωκρατικοὶ διάλογοι, i. 110 n.;
Plato’s jealousy and love of supremacy, 117 n.

Diotima, iii. 8 n., 9.

Disease, general survey of, iv. 249;
preservative and healing agencies, 250.

Dittrich on Kratylus, iii. 303 n.

Diversum, iv. 226;
form of, pervades all others, iii. 209, 232;
Aristotle on, 238 n.

Division, logical, ii. 27;
and definition, the two processes of dialectic, iii. 29, 39;
dialogues of search illustrate process, 29, 177, 188;
novelty and value of this, ii. 235, iii. 190;
by dichotomy, 254;
importance of founding on sensible resemblances, 255;
sub-classes often overlooked, 341;
well illustrated in Philêbus, 344;
but feebly applied, 369;
Plato enlarges Pythagorean doctrine, 368.

Divorce, iv. 406.

Dodona, oracle to be consulted, iv. 325;
Xenophon, i. 237.

Doing and making, ii. 155;
use of εὖ ζῆν and εὖ πράττειν in Charmidês, 216 n.

Drama, influence on growth of Dialectic, i. 385;
mixed pleasure and pain excited by, iii. 355 n.;
Plato’s aversion to Athenian, iv. 316, 350;
peculiar to himself, 317;
Aristotle differs, ib. n.;
see Poetry.

Dreams, doctrine of Demokritus, caused by images from objects, i. 81;
Plato’s theory of, iv. 237;
as affecting doctrine Homo mensura, iii. 130;
belief of rhetor Aristeides in, 146 n.

Drunkenness, Sokrates proof against, iii. 21, 23, iv. 287;
is test of self-control, iii. 21 n., iv. 289, 298;
forbidden at Sparta, how far justifiable, 286;
chorus of elders require, 297;
unbecoming the guardians, 298 n.

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Eberhard, ii. 300 n.

Eclipse, foretold by Thales, i. 4 n.;
Anaximander’s doctrine, 6 n.;
Pythagoras’, 14 n.;
Herakleitus’, 32.

Education, who is to judge what constitutes, ii. 142;
combined with polity by Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, iv. 142, 185, 337;
on principle that every citizen belongs to the city, 186;
precautions in electing Minister of, 338;
of men compared by Sokrates with training of inferior animals, iii. 62 n.;
bad, of kings’ sons, iv. 312;
training of boys and girls, 348;
by music and gymnastic, 23;
musical training excites love of the beautiful, 27;
importance of music, 305;
views of Xenophon, Polybius, Aristotle, ib.;
music, Platonic sense, 149;
by fictions as well as by truth, 24;
actual place of poetry in Greek, compared with Plato’s ideal, 149-153;
type for narratives about men, 26;
songs, music, and dancing to be regulated, 25, 289, 291, 349;
to keep emotions in a proper state, 169;
prizes at festivals, 292, 337;
but object of training, war, not prizes, 358;
only grave music allowed, 26, 168;
music and gymnastic necessary to correct each other, 29;
gymnastic imparts courage, ib.;
training to ascend to the idea of good, 61;
purpose, 69;
studies introductory to philosophy, 70-74, 206;
difference in Leges, 275 n.;
arithmetic, 423;
awakening power, 70;
stimulus from contradiction of one and many, 72;
geometry, 423;
conducts mind towards universal ens, 72;
value of arithmetic and geometry, 352;
by concrete method, 353 n.;
particulars to be brought under the general forms, 423;
astronomy, 422;
object of teaching, 354;
by ideal figures, not observation, 72;
acoustics, by applying arithmetical relations and theories, 74;
of Nocturnal Counsellors, 420, 424;
exercises in dialectic, 76;
Plato’s remarks on effect of, 207;
age for studies, 76, 350;
philosophy should not be taught at a very early age, 60, 76;
Republic contradicts other dialogues, 207-211;
same training for men and women, 77;
maintained in Leges, and harmonises with ancient legends, 195;
contrast with Aristotle, 194;
public training at Sparta and Krete, 279;
Plato’s scheme fails from no training for Demos, 186;
Xenophon’s scheme, i. 226-31;
geometry and physics, Aristippus’ contempt for, 186, 192.

Egger, i. 376 n.

Ego, and Mecum or non-ego, antithesis of, iii. 132 n., 144 n.

Egyptians, iv. 330 n., 352, 353 n., 415 n.;
priests, historical knowledge of, 266, 268;
causes, 271;
Plato’s reverence for regulations of, 267 n.

Εἰρωνεία, characteristic of Sokrates and Sophists, iii. 217 n.

Eleatic philosophy, i. 16-26, 93-103;
Leukippus, 65;
relation to atomic theory, ib.;
theory of vision, iv. 237 n.;
compared with Hindoo philosophers, i. 160 n.

Eleians, iii. 24 n.

Elements, the four, not primitive, iv. 238;
varieties of each, 242;
forms of the, 238;
geometrical theory of, 240;
Aristotle on, 241 n.;
a fifth added, ib. n., 421.

Emotions, appealed to in the Kriton, i. 433;
Bain on the Tender, ii. 188 n.;
a degenerate appendage of human nature, 126, iii. 389;
implication of intelligence and, 374;
antithesis of science and, 61, 195, 196 n.;
the tender and aesthetic, no place for, in tripartite division of soul, iv. 149 n.;
poet’s appeal to, disturbs the rational government of the mind, 92, 152, 349;
restrictions on music and poetry, to keep emotions in a proper state, 169, 347;
similitude of, in all, but dissimilarity of objects, i. 452 n.

Empedokles, of universal pretensions, i. 47;
doctrines, 38;
four principles, ib.;
dissents from Ionic School and Herakleitus, ib., 48;
denies φύσις (in sense of γένεσις), 38 n.;
compared with Anaxagoras, 52;
Anaximander, 54;
the moving forces, Love and Enmity, 39;
modern attraction and repulsion, 40 n.;
physics, 38;
predestined cycle, 39;
Chaos, ib., 54;
was aware of effect of pressure of air, 44 n.;
movements of the blood, 43;
illustrated respiration by Klepsydra, 44 n.;
perception, 44, iv. 235 n.;
contrary to Anaxagoras, i. 58;
knowledge of like by like, 44;
God, 40 n., 42;
dæmons, 47;
religious mysticism in, 47 n.;
claims magical powers, 47;
sacredness of life, metempsychosis, 46;
friendship, ii. 179;
deplores impossibility of finding out truth from shortness of life, i. 47;
influence on Aristotle, 91;
doctrines identified by Plato with Homo Mensura, iii. 114, 115.

Ends, science of, postulated, ii. 32, 169;
dimly indicated by Plato, 148;
correlation with the unknown Wise Man, 149;
distinction of, iii. 374 n.;
no common, among established νόμιμα, 282 n.

Energy, analogous to guardians in state, iv. 39;
Aristotle’s ἐνέργεια, ii. 355.

Ens, of Xenophanes, i. 17;
of Parmenides, 66, iii. 58;
combines extension and duration, i. 19;
and Non-Ens, an inherent contradiction in human mind, 20;
alone contains truth — phenomena, probability, 24;
erroneously identified by Aristotle with Heat, ib. n.;
Zeno, 93;
Gorgias the Leontine, 103-4;
Demokritus, 67;
contraries the Pythagorean principles of, 15 n.;
an intermediate predicate, iii. 94;
theories of philosophers about, 200, 231;
materialists and idealists, 202;
of Plato, comprehends objects of perception and of conception, 229, 231;
is ens one or many, 201;
difficulties about non-ens and ens equally great, ib., 206;
is equivalent to potentiality, 204;
includes both the unchangeable and the changeable, 205;
a tertium quid, distinct from motion and rest, 206;
philosopher lives in region of ens, — Sophist, of non-ens, 208;
non-ens, 331;
different views about, 243 n.;
its different meanings in Plato, 181 n.;
non-ens inconceivable, 200;
five forms examined, 208, 231-5;
a real form, not contrary to, but different from, ens, 211, 233;
inter-communion of forms of non-ens and of proposition, opinion, judgment, 213, 214, 235;
non-ens in Sophistês different from other dialogues, 242;
Plato’s view of non-ens, ib. n., 249 n.;
unsatisfactory, ib. n.;
alone knowable, non-ens unknowable, iv. 49;
what is between ens and non-ens, the object of opinion, ib.;
fundamental distinction of ens from fientia, 219;
see Relativity, Ontology.

Entities, quadruple distribution of, iii. 346;
Cudworth’s immutable, 74 n.

Epicharmus, i. 9.

Epiktêtus, on authority, i. 388 n.;
objective and subjective, 451 n.;
φιλόσοφος and ἰδιώτης, iv. 104 n.;
scheme conformable to nature, i. 162 n.

Epikurus, garden, i. 255 n.;
school and library, 269 n.;
Symposion of, iii. 22 n.;
developed Aristippus’ doctrines, i. 198;
identity of good and pleasure, ii. 315 n., 355 n., iii. 374, 377 n., 387 n., iv. 301;
scheme conformable to nature, i. 163 n.;
on justice, iv. 130 n.;
antithesis of speculative and political life, ii. 368 n.;
immortality of the soul, 425 n.;
against repulsive pictures of Hades, iv. 155 n.;
prayer and sacrifice, 395;
agreement with Demokritean doctrine of chance, i. 73 n.;
Plato’s theology compared with, iv. 161.

Epimenidês, date, iv. 311 n.

Epimêtheus, ii. 268.

Epinomis, its authorship, i. 299 n., 306, 307, 309;
represents Plato’s latest opinions, iv. 421 n., 424 n.;
gives education of Nocturnal Counsellors, 420, 424;
soul prior to and more powerful than body, 421;
genesis of kosmos, ib.;
five elements, 240 n., 421;
wisdom, ib.;
theological view of astronomy, ib.;
arithmetic and geometry, proportionals, 423;
particulars to be brought under the general forms, 423.

Ἐπιστήμη, relation to αἴσθησις, iii. 164 n.;
see Science.

Epistles, Plato’s, i. 333 n.;
genuineness, 306-7, 309, 349 n.;
written when old, 262;
valuable illustrations of his character, 339 n.;
intentional obscurity as to philosophical doctrine, 350, 353 n.

Ἐπιθυμία, derivation, iii. 302 n.

Equivoques, ii. 8 n., 214, iii. 29;
Sokrates does not distinguish, ii. 279;
Aristotle more careful than Plato, 170, 279 n.;
fallacies of equivocation, 212, 352 n.;
gain, 82;
know, 213 n.;
εὖ ζῆν and εὖ πράττειν, 216 n., 352 n.;
Nature, 341 n., iv. 194;
Cause, ii. 404, 409, 410 n.;
Good, 406, iii. 370;
Ens, 231;
Unum, Ens, Idem, Diversum, &c., 94;
Pleasure, 379 n.;
Justice, iv. 102, 120, 123, 125.

Eranos, meaning, iv. 400 n.;
Plato inconsistent, 399.

Erasistratus, iv. 259 n.

Erastæ, authenticity, i. 306-7, 309, 315, ii. 121;
subject and interlocutors, 111;
vivacity, 116;
philosophy the perpetual accumulation of knowledge, 112;
how to fix the quantity, 113;
philosophy not multiplication of learned acquirements, 114;
special art for discriminating bad and good, 115, 119;
supreme, 120;
the philosopher its regular practitioner, 115;
the philosopher, second best in several arts, 114;
Aristotle’s σοφία and φρόνησις, 120 n.;
relation of second-best man to regular practitioner, 113, 115, 118;
supposed to point at Demokritus, ib.;
humiliation of literary erastes, 116.