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    Index

    aesthetic judgment and moral judgment 80, 95, 116

    Aristotle xiv, xv, 3, 10, 19, 21, 26, 29, 39, 48, 61, 72, 81, 97, 100, 102, 123, 152, 179, 181, 189, 233, 241, 253, 271, 285287, 294295, 311

    belief. See also knowledge

    distinctive of non-philosophers xxiv, 153154, 161162, 176

    particulars are the objects of belief 161, 163164, 168, 197, 203

    Cave Allegory. See Chapter 11

    Confucius 106

    courage 118

    courage as a personal virtue 17, 7879, 98, 109111, 120, 180, 294

    courage as a political virtue 101102, 118, 120, 153

    dialectic 75, 120, 184, 195, 202, 204, 206208, 214, 218, 235

    disability xxii, 8485, 90, 98

    disgust 67, 81, 115117, 123, 127, 136137, 245, 283

    distaste. See disgust

    divided line analogy xviii, xxiv, 196, 198202, 211217, 219, 287, 301

    education (paideia) xiv, xviii, xxii, xxv, 4, 66, 72, 9496, 102, 110111, 116, 118, 120, 122, 133134, 136137, 139, 147, 166, 176, 178, 207, 211212, 214, 222, 224, 278, See Chapter 4

    in decaying cities and souls 230232, 235, 244245

    point of the Cave Allegory 211

    Epicurus 239241, 246, 267

    epistemology

    epistemological argument against imitative poetry 279, 283

    relation to metaphysics 153, 161, 199, 279

    falsehood 176177

    noble falsehood, the xxii, 8790, 105106, 110, 134, 285, 292

    true v. verbal falsehoods 7678, 8890, 102, 133, 145, 177, 285

    feminism xxiii, 140144, 148, 241

    Form of the good, the

    and wisdom 186, 191, 268

    epistemological, metaphysical, moral foundation xxiv, 156, 191, 195196, 204205

    role in dialectic 204205

    role in education (paideia) 211, 214

    sun analogy 194196

    Forms, the

    Forms as essences xxiv, 154156, 158161, 178, 195, 203, 214, 264, 277

    located in the intelligible world xxiv, xxv, 156, 195198, 200, 211, 217218, 301

    mind-independent reality of xxiv, 10, 154, 156157, 159160, 175, 218, 263

    more real than particular objects xxv, 10, 156157, 160, 191, 197, 212, 217, 258, 263

    particular objects as instances of xxiv, 154157, 160163, 171, 196

    Powers Argument, the xxiv, xxv, 161168, 172, 175, 183, 196, 217218, 264265, 301

    function. See virtue(s)

    Gyges, ring of 6364, 123, 245

    happiness (eudaimonia) xvi, xix, 3940, 4749, 66, 9394, 146, 152, 219, 225, 236, 240, 252254, 270, 301

    arguments that a just life is happier 4849, 51, See Chapter 13

    hedonism 192193, 239, 254

    Hume, David 4546, 126127, 234, 267, 303, 311

    hypotheses xxiv, 120, 184, 200202, 204206, 217

    Socrates’ hypothetical method 195, 206, 218

    ideal city (polis)

    cooperative, not competitive 68

    decline of the ideal city and soul xxv, See Chapter 12

    economic organization via the Specialization Principle 69, 72, 84, 106, 126, 137138, 235236, 290

    first, rustic city 68, 71, 97, 238, 276

    second, luxurious city 71, 238

    illusions

    optical and hedonic 261263

    justice

    as moral virtue generally xv, xxi, 1, 7

    conventionalism about 31, 41, 6163

    defined as benefiting friends and harming enemies 1116, 1920, 48, 182

    defined as each class of the city doing its own work 106, 121

    defined as each part of the soul doing its own work xxiii, 121

    defined as paying one’s debts and telling the truth xxi, 78

    defined as what benefits the powerful xxi, 2528, 3032, 35, 38

    immoralism about 42, 45, 47, 4950

    in decaying cities and souls 235

    injustice worsens but does not destroy the soul 291

    intrapersonal being v. interpersonal doing 93, 121

    justice as a meta-virtue 109

    justice as a personal virtue xvii, xix, xxii, xxiii, 9394, 107, 118, 183

    justice as a political virtue xvii, xix, xxii, 9394, 106, 113

    justice in decaying cities and souls 232, 234236, 242, 245246

    personal justice as psychic health 123

    relation to happiness xv, xvi, xix, xxii, 3839, 4647, 50, 56, 94, 265, 268

    reputational benefits of seeming just 6567, 234235, 252

    search for real definition of xiv, xv, xvii, xx, xxi, xxii, 2, 7, 26, 45, 50, 93

    search for the real definition of 7, 96, 229

    Kant, Immanuel 10, 8081, 122, 226, 266, 300, 302

    knowledge xiv, xxiv, 80, 87, 100, 118, 125, 139, 164, 179, 203, 252, 268, 270

    as justified true belief 5556, 66, 101, 167, 169, 204

    as the good 193194

    distinctive of philosophers xxiv, 153154, 176

    infallibility of 168172

    knowledge v. belief xxiv, 101, 153154, 161163, 166169, 172, 175176, 196197, 203, 217, 264

    the Forms are the objects of knowledge 154, 161164, 169, 171, 186, 196197

    love 8283, 8788, 125126, 147, 153, 176179, 245, 253

    metaphysics

    Forms, the. See Forms, the

    Metaphysics of Pleasure Argument, the xxv, 257, 259, 263265, 301302

    Plato’s metaphysical elevator 151, 157, 161, 191, 196, 204, 217218, 263

    Plato’s two-worlds metaphysics 172, 197, 217218, 264, 287, 301

    moderation

    moderation as a personal virtue 78, 80, 114, 119, 179, 181, 275

    moderation as a political virtue xxii, 102104, 109, 118

    poetry

    constraints on poetic content 7678, 275

    constraints on poetic style 7980, 275, 282

    epistemological argument against imitative poetry 279281

    harmonic mode and rhythm 7981, 95, 275, 282

    imitation and narration 79, 276277, 282283

    metaphysical argument against imitative poetry 277279

    moral argument against imitative poetry 282284

    Powers Argument, the. See Forms, the

    soul (psuchê)

    a fourth part of the soul? 287289

    analogy to city (polis) xxii, 67, 73, 93, 97, 114, 118, 121, 144, 183, 229, 289

    ‘an image of the soul in words’ 120, 265, 267268

    appetitive part xxiii, 115, 143

    aristocratic soul governed by reason 256

    democratic soul governed by lawful unnecessary appetites 238

    distinctive pleasures of the soul’s distinct parts 254, 258

    division via the Opposition Principle 114115, 206

    education as turning the soul 211212, 214

    harmony and justice 124

    immortality of 48, 289292, 296

    myth of the metals, the 8889, 110, 141

    oligarchic soul governed by necessary appetites 233, 235

    rational part xxiii, 115

    spirited part xxiii, 115117

    timocratic soul governed by spirit 232

    tyrannical soul governed by lawless unnecessary appetites 244

    virtue(s)

    cardinal virtues xxii, 17, 9798, 105, 108, 111, 153, 181, 242

    function 1719, 37, 42, 4849, 69, 94, 100101, 117, 154, 162, 164, 166, 179

    holistic v. particular virtues 100102, 104, 110

    personal virtues xxiii, 103, 118, 119, 120. See also courage; justice;  moderation;  wisdom

    political virtues xxii, xxiii, 96. See also courage;  justice;  moderation; wisdom

    virtue ethics 39, 122

    virtues v. crafts, skills xxi, 1315, 17, 35, 3738, 4345, 47, 168

    wisdom

    knowledge of what is best for the whole 87, 100101, 109, 124, 138, 175, 180, 186, 191192, 219, 236, 270

    wisdom as a personal virtue 118, 124, 126, 138

    wisdom as a political virtue 100101

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