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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.

J.

Jamblichus on metempsychosis, ii. 426 n.

Jason, of Pheræ, iii. 388 n.

Jerome, St., on Plato and Aristotle, i. xv.

Johnson, Dr., on Berkeley, iv. 243 n.

Jouffroy, à priori element of cognition, iii. 119 n.

Judgment, akin to proposition, and may be false, by partnership with form non-ens, iii. 213-4;
implied in every act of consciousness, 165 n.

Just, the holy a branch of the, i. 447;
and unjust, standard of the better, ii. 3;
whence knowledge of it, 4;
identified with the good, honourable, expedient, 7;
or Good is the profitable — general, but not constant, explanation of Plato, 38;
the just, by law, not nature, Aristippus’ doctrine, i. 197.

Justice, is it just, ii. 278;
varieties of meaning, i. 452 n., iv. 102, 120, 123, 125;
derivation of δικαιοσύνη, iii. 301 n.;
of δίκαιον, 308 n.;
with temperance, the condition of happiness and freedom, ii. 12;
and sense of shame possessed and taught by all citizens, 269;
how far like holiness, i. 447, ii. 278;
opposition of natural and legal, 338, i. 197;
what is, iii. 416;
unsatisfactory answers of Sokrates and his friends, ib.;
is rendering what is owing, iv. 2;
rejected, 6;
is what is advantageous to the most powerful, 8;
modified, 9;
is the good of another, 10;
necessary to society and individual, injustice a source of weakness, 11;
is a source of happiness, 12, 14, 18;
is a compromise, 13;
good only from consequences, 15, 16, 99;
Xenophon on, 114 n.;
the received view anterior to Plato, 100;
a good per se, 20, 40, 84, 90, 116;
and from its consequences, 94, 121, 123, 294;
proved also by superiority of pleasures of intelligence, 84;
proof fails, 116, 118-21;
all-sufficient for happiness, germ of Stoical doctrine, 102;
inconsistent with actual facts, 106;
incorrect, for individual dependent on society, ib., 123;
Plato’s affirmation true in a qualified sense, 125;
orthodoxy or dissent of just man must be taken into account, 126, 131;
in state, 34;
is in all classes, 36;
is performing one’s own function, ib., 37, 39;
analogy to bodily health, 40;
what constitutes injustice, 367-9;
no man voluntarily wicked, 249, 365-7;
distinction of damage and injury, 366;
relation to rest of virtue, 428;
distinction effaced between temperance and, 135;
ethical basis imperfect, 127;
view peculiar to Plato, 99;
Platonic conception is self-regarding, 104;
motives to it arise from internal happiness of the just, 105;
view substantially maintained since, ib.;
essential reciprocity in society, ii. 312, 333, iv. 100, 133;
the basis of Plato’s own theory of city’s genesis, 111;
incompletely stated, 112 n.;
any theory of society must present antithesis and correlation of obligation and right, 112;
Xenophon’s definition unsatisfactory, i. 231;
Karneades, iv. 118 n.;
Epikurus, 130 n.;
Lucretius, ib.;
Pascal, i. 231 n.

K.

Κακία, derivation, iii. 301 n.

Kallikles, rhetor and politician, ii. 340.

Kallimachus, Plato’s works known to, i. 276, 296 n.;
issued catalogue of Alexandrine library, 275.

Καλόν, τό, translated by beautiful, ii. 49 n.;
defined, 327, 334;
rejected, ib.;
see Beautiful, Honourable.

Kant, his Noumenon agrees with Ens of Parmenides, i. 21.

Kapila, i. 378 n.;
analogy to Plato, ii. 389 n.

Karneades, on justice, iv. 118 n.

Kepler, applied Pythagorean conception, i. 14 n.;
devotion to mathematics, iii. 388 n.

King, see Monarch.

Kleitophon, fragmentary, i. 268, iii. 419, 424;
authenticity, i. 305-7, 309, 315, iii. 419 n., 420, 426 n.;
posthumous, 420;
in Republic tetralogy, i. 406 n., iii. 419, 425;
represents the point of view of many objectors, 424;
scenery and persons, 413;
Sokrates has power in awakening ardour for virtue, 415;
but does not explain what virtue is, ib., 421-24;
what is justice or virtue, 416;
unsatisfactory replies of Sokrates’ friends, ib.;
Kleitophon believes Sokrates knows but will not tell, 418;
compared with Republic, 425;
Apology, 421.

Know, Aristotle on equivocal meaning of, ii. 213 n.;
to know and be known is action and passion, iii. 287 n.

Knowledge, claim to universal, common to ancient philosophers, iii. 219;
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 natural state of human mind, Sokrates’ theory, 374, 414, ii. 166 n., 218, 243, 263;
regarded as an ethical defect, iii. 177;
Sokrates’ mission, i. 374, 376, ii. 24, 146, 419, iii. 422, iv. 219;
search after, the business of life to Sokrates and Plato, i. 396;
per se interesting, 403;
necessity of scrutiny, 398 n.;
Mill on vagueness of common words, ii. 48 n.;
omnipotence of King Nomos, i. 378-84;
different views of Plato, iii. 163, 164 n.;
evolution of indwelling conceptions, i. 359 n., ii. 249, iii. 17;
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 of the ideas, 237, iii. 13, 17;
gods possess the Idea of, 67, 68 n.;
philosophy the perpetual accumulation of, ii. 112;
of good and evil, distinct from other sciences, 168;
necessary to use of good things, 205;
must include both making and right use205;
no action contrary to, 291;
virtue is, 239, 321, 67 n., 149;
of what unsolved, 244;
to hurt knowingly or wilfully better than unwillingly, 58;
analogies from the arts, 59;
evil done by good man with, by bad without, 61;
as condition of human conduct, Sokrates and Plato dwell too exclusively on, 67, 83;
rely too much on analogy of arts, and do not note what underlies epithets, 68;
and moderation identical, having same contrary, 280;
of self, Delphian maxim, 11, 25;
from looking into other minds, is temperance, 12;
opposed to divine inspiration, 136;
no object of, distinct from knowledge itself, 156;
of ens alone, iv. 49;
all, relative to some object, ii. 157, 169;
is sensible perception, iii. 111, 113, 154, 172 n.;
erroneously identified with Homo Mensura, 113, 118, 120 n., 125, 162 n.;
objections, sensible facts, different to different percipients, 153;
sensible perception does not include memory, 157;
argument from analogy of seeing and not seeing at the same time, ib.;
lies in the mind’s comparisons respecting sensible perceptions, 161;
difference from modern views, 162;
the mind rises from sensation to opinion, then cognition, 164;
verification from experience, not recognised as necessary or possible, 168;
of good, identified with νοῦς, of other things with δόξα, ii. 30;
relation to opinion, iii. 167 n., 172, 184 n.;
are false opinions possible, 169;
waxen memorial tablet in the mind, ib.;
distinction of possessing and having actually in hand, 170;
simile of pigeon-cage, 171;
false opinion is the confusion of cognitions and non-cognitions, refuted, ib.;
distinguished from right opinion, ii. 253, 255 n., iii. 168;
rhetor communicates true opinion, not knowledge, 172;
Plato’s compared with modern views, ii. 254;
is true opinion plus rational explanation, iii. 173;
analogy of elements and compounds, ib.;
three meanings of rational explanation, 174;
definition rejected, 175;
antithesis of opinion and, not so marked in Politikus as Theætêtus, 256;
opposite cognitions unlike each other, 336, 396;
pleasures of, true, 356, 387 n.;
good a mixture of pleasure and, 361;
same principle of classification applied to pleasure as to, 382;
classification of true and false, how applied to cognitions, 394;
its valuable principles, 395;
see Relativity, Science, Self-knowledge.

Kosmos, the first topic of Greek speculation, i. ix.;
primitive belief, 2;
early explanation by Polytheism, ib.;
Homer and Hesiod, ib.;
Thales, 4;
water once covered the earth, notices of the argument from prints of shells and fishes, 18;
Anaximander, 5-7;
Anaximenes, 7-8;
Pythagoras, 12;
Pythagorean music of the spheres, 14;
Xenophanes, 18, 119 n.;
Parmenides, 24, 90 n.;
Herakleitus, 32;
Empedokles, 39, 41;
Diogenes of Apollonia, 64;
its Reason, different conceptions of Sokrates and Aristotle, ii. 402 n.;
soul prior to and more powerful than body, iv. 386, 419, 421;
the good and the bad souls at work in the universe, 386;
all things full of gods, 388;
soul of, iii. 265 n., iv. 421;
its position and elements, 225;
affinity of soul of, and human, iii. 366 n.;
mythe in Politikus, 265 n.;
divine steersman and dæmons, ib.;
analogy of individual mind and cosmical process, i. 36 n.;
comparison of man to kosmos unnecessary and confusing, iii. 367;
free from pleasure and pain, 389;
forced conjunction of kosmology and ethics, 391;
idea of good rules the ideal, as sun the visible, iv. 64;
simile of, absolute height and depth, 87;
unchangeable essences of, rarely studied, iii. 361;
aversion to studying, on ground of impiety, iv. 219 n.;
no knowledge of, obtainable, 220;
theory in Timæus acknowledged to be merely an εἰκὼς λόγος, 217;
Demiurgus, ideas, chaos postulated, 220;
Time began with the, 227;
is a living being and a god, 220, 223;
Demiurgus produces, by persuading Necessity, 220;
process of demiurgic construction, 223;
the copy of the Αὐτόζωον, ib., 227, 235 n., 264;
product of joint action of reason and necessity, 238;
body, spherical form, and rotations, i. 25 n., iv. 225, 229, 237, 252, 325 n., 388-9;
to be studied for mental hygienic, 252;
primary and visible gods, 229;
secondary and generated gods, 230;
construction of man, 243;
generated gods fabricate cranium as miniature of kosmos, with rational soul rotating within, 235;
four elements not primitive, 238;
action of Ideas on prime matter, 238;
Forms of the elements, ib.;
primordial chaos, 240;
geometrical theory of the elements, ib.;
borrowed from Pythagoreans, i. 349 n.;
Aristotle on, iv. 241 n.;
varieties of each element, 242;
contrast of Plato’s admiration, with degenerate realities, 262, 264;
degeneracy originally intended, 263;
recurrence of destructive agencies, 270, 307;
change of view in Epinomis, 421, 424 n.

Krates, the “door-opener,” i. 173;
Sokrates’ precepts fully carried out by Diogenes and, 160, 174.

Kratippus, the Peripatetic, i. 258 n.

Kratylus, purpose, iii. 302-8, 309 n., 321, 323, 325 n.;
authenticity, i. 316;
date, 306, 309, 310, 312;
subject and personages, iii. 285;
speaking and naming conducted according to fixed laws, 286;
names distinguished by Plato as true or false, ib. n.;
connected with doctrine of Ideas, 326 n.;
the thing spoken of suffers, 287 n.;
name, a didactic instrument, made by lawgiver on type of name-form, 287, 312, 329;
Plato’s idéal, 325, 328 n., 329;
compared with his views on social institutions, 327;
natural rectitude of names, 289, 300 n., 305 n.;
names vary in degree of aptitude, 319;
aptitude consists in resemblance, 313;
difficult to harmonise with facts, 323;
forms of names and of things nameable, 289;
lawgiver alone discerns essences of names, and assigns them correctly, 290;
proofs cited from etymology, 299, 300 n., 307 n.;
not caricatures of sophists, 302, 304, 310 n., 314 n., 321, 323;
the etymologies serious, 306-12, 317 n.;
counter-theory, Homo Mensura, 291, 326 n.;
objection, it levels all animals, 292;
analogy of physical processes, unsuitable, 294;
belief not dependent on will, 297;
first imposer of names a Herakleitean, 301 n., 314-5, 320 n.;
how names have become disguised, 312;
changes hard to follow, 315;
onomastic art, letters as well as things must be distinguished with their essential properties, 313;
Herakleitean theory admitted, 317;
some names not consistent with it, 319;
things known only through names, not true, 320;
Herakleitean flux, true of particulars, not of Ideas, ib.;
the theory uncertain, implicit trust not to be put in names, 321, 324;
compared with Politikus, 281, 329;
Sophistês. 331;
Timæus, ib.;
various reading in, p. 429c, 317 n.

Krete, unlettered community, iv. 277;
public training and mess, 279;
its customs peculiar to itself and Sparta, 280 n.

Kritias, a fragment, i. 268, iv. 265;
probably would have been an ethical epic in prose, 269;
in Republic tetralogy, 215, 265;
date, i. 309, 311-3, 315, 325;
authenticity, 307, iv. 266 n.;
subject, 266;
citizens of Plato’s state identified with ancient Athenians, ib.;
Solon and Egyptian priests, ib., 268;
explanation of their learning, 271;
island Atlantis and its kings, 268;
address of Zeus, 269;
corruption and wickedness of people, ib.;
submergence, 270;
mythe incomplete, iii. 409 n.;
presented as matter of history, iv. 270;
recurrence of destructive kosmical agencies, ib.

Kriton, rhetorical, not dialectical, i. 433;
compared with Gorgias, ii. 362;
general purpose, subject, and interlocutors, i. 425, 428;
authority of public judgment, nothing, of Expert, everything, 420, 435;
Sokrates does not name, but himself acts as, expert, 436;
Sokrates’ answer to Kriton’s appeal to flee, 426;
Sokrates’ principle, Never act unjustly, 427;
this a cardinal point, though most men differ from him, ib.;
character and disposition of Sokrates, differently set forth, 428;
imaginary pleading of the Laws of Athens, ib.;
agreement with Athenian democratic sentiment, 430, 432;
Plato’s purpose in this, 428;
attempts reconciliation of constitutional allegiance with Sokrates’ individuality, 432;
Sokrates characteristics overlooked in the harangue, 431;
maintained by his obedience from conviction, ib.

Kyrenaics, scheme of life, i. 188;
ethical theory, 195;
logical theory, 197;
doctrine of relativity, ib., 204;
Æthiops, Antipater, and Arêtê, 195;
Theodorus on the gods, 202;
see Aristippus, Hegesias.

L.

Labour, division of, iv. 138.

Lachês, authenticity, i. 305, ii. 151;
date, i. 304, 306, 308-10, 312, 315, 328, 331 n.;
subject and interlocutors, ii. 138;
dramatic contrast of Lachês and Sokrates, 150;
should lessons be received from a master of arms, 138;
Sokrates refers to a professional judge, 139;
the judge must prove his competence, Sokrates confesses incompetence, 140;
marks of the Expert, 141;
education — virtue must first be known, 142;
courage, 143;
example instead of definition, ib.;
not endurance, 144;
intelligence of things terrible and not terrible, 145, iv. 138;
such intelligence not possessed by professional artists, ii. 148;
but is an inseparable part of knowledge of good and evil generally, 149;
intelligence of good and evil generally — too wide, 146;
apparent tendency of Plato’s mind in looking for a solution, 147;
compared with Theagês, 104;
Charmidês, 168;
Politikus, iii. 282-4;
Republic, iv. 138.

Lactantius, the soul, ii. 425 n.

Land, division of, twelve tribes, iv. 329;
perpetuity of lots of, 326, 360;
Aristotle on, 326 n.;
succession, 328, 404;
distribution of annual produce, 361.