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283 Index Academy of Plato, 61, 165, 178, 179, 225, 250 acrasia. See weakness of will Adeimantus, 52 Ad hominem arguments, 4, 24, 41, 46, 101 Aeschines of Sphettus, 19, 67 Agathon, 73–77, 80–81, 89 Alcibiades, 19, 88, 103 Anaxagoras, 99, 187–88, 192, 216 anteros, 86, 190 Antigone, 18, 20, 43 anti-logic. See eristic Antiphon, 113 Antisthenes, 37, 202 Anytus, 49–50, 55–59 Aquinas, Thomas, 3 Aristides, 57 Aristippus, 51 Aristophanes, 15, 16, 17, 18, 75, 77–80, 84, 89, 124, 135 Aristotle, 3, 6, 16, 21, 34, 35, 36, 61, 62, 63, 70, 126, 136, 144, 146, 161, 165, 167, 178, 185, 213, 215, 220, 224–26, 234, 237, 241, 250, 254, 264–65 art/arts, 159–60, 276–78 atheism, 16, 238 Beauty, 61–62, 73, 75–76, 80–81, 86–89, 93, 138, 188, 189, 198, 246 belief, 26, 32, 33, 50, 58–59, 126, 134, 140 Callicles, 11, 24, 37, 41, 49, 52, 56, 81, 108, 113, 114, 117, 238, 240 Cave (in Republic), 105, 149–50, 152, 219 Chaerephon, 19, 25 Charmides, 25–29 chronology of dialogues, 7 “city of pigs,” 121 city of rich and city of poor, 126, 128 civil war (stasis), 130, 133, 155 contemporary social scene, 1–5 conventionalism, 17, 43, 96, 135, 153, 220, 243, 252–56, 268 courage, 29, 31, 33, 35–36, 39, 107, 210 Critias, 17, 25–29, 37, 113, 223, 244 daimon, 83, 229, 231, 248. See also mind death, 68, 90, 94, 101–5, 108, 140 definition, 35–36, 51 Delphi/Delphic Oracle, 19, 23, 25–27, 29, 49, 82, 89, 129, 186, 214, 215 Demiurge, 224, 226–35, 238, 265 democracy/democratic man, 2, 15, 117, 155–57 desire, 41, 66, 69–74, 131–32, 157. See also eros; pleasure dialectic, 20, 26, 52, 60, 151–52, 191 dialogue form, 11–12, 25, 43, 50, 73, 166, 177, 179, 194, 196 dialogues of definition, 26, 42, 107 Diotima, 52, 74, 79–87, 120, 137, 179, 188, 211, 221 divided line (in Republic), 146, 148, 277 divided self, 8, 128, 151 division, 191, 193, 196–97, 202, 207–8 dramatic techniques, 25–26, 74, 103, 110 Dworkin, R., 262 Dyad (indefinite), 213, 233 284 index egalitarian politics, 2, 56, 155 Empedocles, 77, 209 eristic, 26, 52–53, 55, 60, 68, 98, 101 eros, 66–89, 138, 150, 165, 186–96, 205, 221, 232, 274, 275 eugenics, 72, 135, 154, 163, 271–74 Euripides, 17, 18, 34, 244 Euthyphro, 25, 29, 35, 43–48 Evenus of Paros, 192 false statements, 7, 59–60 family (in Ideal State), 133, 134–36 Forms: of Good, 93, 142–45, 148–49, 151–52, 164, 166, 201, 206, 209–10, 213, 219, 222, 224, 231, 232, 234, 243, 251, 278; of moral, mathematical, and aesthetic items, 60–61, 95, 138, 161, 176, 211, 220, 235, 249; of negatives, 138, 164, 169, 191, 196, 210, 249–50; of physical objects, 60–61, 160–62, 164, 165, 169, 172–73, 211, 235, 250. See also Beauty friendship, 68, 70–71 friends of the Forms, 200, 206, 207 God(s), 19–20, 47, 102, 120–21, 124–25, 160–61, 164, 201, 212, 213–41, 243–44, 251, 255, 257 Gorgias, 29, 36, 37, 50, 52, 55, 57, 80–81, 192, 236 greatest kinds, 177, 199, 202–4, 230 guardians, 82, 123–28, 137, 179, 272–73, 278 Gyges’ ring, 120 happiness, 2, 75, 110, 217 Heidegger, 199 Heraclitus, 61, 63, 64, 77, 95, 112, 124, 180, 184, 192, 193 Herodotus, 17, 244 Hesiod, 17, 123–24, 182 Hippias, 23, 37, 73 Hobbes, Thomas, 24, 115–16 holiness. See piety Homer/Homeric poems, 17, 32, 57, 78, 85, 95, 109, 123–24, 276 homosexuals/homosexuality, 41, 69–89, 125, 186–87 Hume, David, 41, 115–16, 134, 256, 261 hypothesis, 52–53, 55, 100–101 ignorance, 20, 23,–24, 26, 28, 29–30, 32–33, 35–36, 49, 80, 204, 231 imitation, 125, 159–160, 277–78 Immortality, 70, 86, 105, 121, 187, 201, 216, 246–47, 274; arguments for, 91–102, 162, 240 infinite regress arguments, 160 justice, 51, 93, 107–19, 129, 132, 148, 249 Kahn, C. H., 13 Kant/Kantians, 3, 254, 263–64, 268 Kerensky, 156 knowledge, 28, 30, 33, 37, 39–42, 53–54, 57–58, 69, 96, 100, 102, 129, 138, 140, 143, 146, 178–86, 211, 248–49 Lenin, 156 likeness to god, 70, 135, 189, 216–20, 246 Locke, John...

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