Index homosexuality 133-8
human nature 57-60
rationalism 154
reincarnation 35, 45, 143
Academy, The 10
Adeimantus 57
anamnesis 45-7
Apology, The 30
Aristotle 13, 162-3
art 107-9
Athens 6, 4-5, 50
Atlantis 140-1
Buonarroti, M. 109
Cephalus 51-2
Chora 146
city-states 16
conflation 89
Crito, The 33
cultural relativism 40
illusion, world as 62
religion 15
and morality 28-9
Republic, The 17, 48-123,
knowledge 61-77, 80, 84-5 the army 92
certainty of 37
Heraclitus 20-1
of mathematics 98-9
morality as 106
as blueprint 120
need for experts 94
rhetoric 156-7
Socrates 23-6, 29
Kristeva, Julia 146
labour, division of 91
Laws, The 125-31
Schopenhauer, Arthur 165
selfishness 57-60
slaves 15
societies, beginning of 90
society, hierarchical 95,
leaders see Guardians, the 100-1
logocentrism 160
love 132-9
Socrates 8, 23-37, 70, 51
death of 30-2, 34
influence on Ptato 27, 37
Magnesia, Republic 126-9 and intolerance 130-1 Marx, Karl 56, 101 on morality 106
definitions 70-5
mathematicians, colony 19 The Thaetetus 149, 1 51
democracy 112-19, 123
Democritus 144
mathematics 67-9, 98-100 Sophist, The 14 7 -B
importance of 1 0, 18
Sophists 17, 38-42, 107
Derrida, Jacques 27, 159-60 Meno, The 44-7, 72
Sparta 6-7
dictatorship 116-1 9
Dion 9, 11 -1 2
education 93
Empedocles 143
epistemology 61-77
essential nature 26
ethical relativism 40
ethics 57-60, 11 D
Euthyphro, The 28-9
Forms, the 65-75, 98
Aristotle 162
art 109
flaws 81-3
and Guardians 104-5
morality 110-11
The Timaeus 142
military government 122
Mitt, John Stuart 117
morality 29, 106, 110-11
Aristotle 163
Socrates on 1 06
Thrasymachus 52-60
Nietzsche, Friedrich 56
nominalists 87
a ligarchy 122
paradigms see Forms, the
Parmenides, The 81'
particle th ea ry 144
particulars 63, 73-5
perfection, yearning for 171
Pericles 6 Phaedo, The 34-7, 72
State, the 50, 88-93
see also hierarchical society string theory 145
Symposium, The 132
teleological viewpoint 15
theocracy 127-9
Thaetetus, The 149-53
Thrasymachus 52-6
Timaeus, The 140
timocracy 122
universals 63-4, 86-7
universe, vibrations 145
utopianism 120-1
virtue 43, 44
as knowledge 25
Gorgias, The 43
Glaucon 57-8
government 59, 112, 1 9
types of 122-3
see also Guardians, the
Gramsci, Antonio 101
Greek city-states 16
Phaedrus, The 156-61
philosophy: what is it? 168-9 Whitehead, A.N. 165
Plato after 164-5
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 78
using Socrates 27
in Syracuse 9, 11-12
Polemarchus 51-2
political philosophy 88
language 76-8
politics, Socrates 31-2
Guardians, the 94-6, 100~5 Popper, Karl 120 Hegel, G.W.F. 165 Prisoner and the Cave, The 96 Heraclitus 20, 66 Protagoras 42-3 Heidegger, Martin 78, 165 Herodotus 40 Pythagoras 18-19 hierarchical society 95, 100-1 Hobbes, Thomas 59 176
