F.
Fact and ideal, 5. [472], [473].
Faculties, how different, 5. [477];
—faculties of the soul, 6. [511 E]; 7. [533 E].
[Faith] [or Persuasion], one of the faculties of the soul, 6. [511 D]; 7. [533 E].
Falsehood, alien to the nature of God, 2. [382] [cp. Laws 11. 917 A]; a medicine, only to be used by the state, [ibid.]; 3. [389 A], [414 C]; 5. [459 D] [cp. Laws 2. 663]; hateful to the philosopher, 6. [486], [490].
Family life in the state, 5. [449];
—families in the state, ib. [461];
—family and state, ib. [463];
—cares of family life, ib. [465 C].
Fates, the, 10. [617], [620 E].
Fear, a solvent of the soul, 4. [430 A]; fear and shame, 5. [465 A].
Fearlessness, distinguished from courage, 4. [430 B] [cp. Laches 197 B; Protag. 349 C, 359 foll.].
Feeling, community of, in the state, 5. [464].
Festival of the Bendidea (at the Piraeus), 1. [327 A], [354 A]; of Dionysus (at Athens), 5. [475 D].
Fiction in education, 2. [377] foll.; 3. [391]; censorship of, necessary, 2. [377] foll.; 3. [386]–391, [401 A], [408 C]; 10. [595] foll.; not to represent sorrow, 3. [387] foll. (cp. 10. [604]); representing intemperance to be discarded, 3. [390];
—stories about the gods, not to be received, 2. [378] foll.; 3. [388] foll., [408 C] [cp. Euthyph. 6, 8; Crit. 109 B; Laws 2. 672 B; 10. 886 C; 12. 941];
—stories of the world below, objectionable, 3. [386] foll. (cp. [Hades], [World below]).
Final causes, argument from, applied to justice, 1. [352].
Fire, obtained by friction, 4. [434 E].
Flattery, of the multitude by their leaders, in ill-ordered states, 4. [426] (cp. 9. [590 B]).
Flute, the, to be rejected, 3. [399];
—flute players and flute makers, ib. [D]; 10. [601].
Folly, an inanition (κένωσις) of the soul, 9. [585 A].
Food, the condition of life and existence, 2. [369 C].
Forgetfulness, a mark of an unphilosophical nature, 6. [486 D], [490 E]:
—the plain of Forgetfulness (Lethe), 10. [621 A].
Fox, the emblem of subtlety, 2. [365 C].
Fractions, 7. [525 E].
Freedom, the characteristic of democracy, 8. [557 B], [561]–563.
Friend, the, must be as well as seem 350 good, 1. [334], [335];
—the friends of the tyrant, 8. [567 E]; 9. [576].
Friendship, implies justice, 1. [351] foll.; in the state, 5. [462], [463].
Funeral of the guardians, 5. [465 E], [468 E]; 7. [540 B];
—corpses placed on the pyre on the twelfth day, 10. [614].
Future life, 3. [387]; 10. [614] foll.; punishment of the wicked in, 2. [363]; 10. [615] [cp. Phaedo 108; Gorg. [523 E], 525; Laws 9. 870 E, 881 B; 10. 904 C]. See [Hades], [World below].