[VI]. Hegel’s theory of the Republic, [246]—Several distinct tendencies confounded under the name of subjectivity, [247]—Greek philosophy not an element of political disintegration, [250]—Plato borrowed more from Egypt than from Sparta, [253].
[VII]. The consequences of a radical revolution, [254]—Plato constructed his new republic out of the elementary and subordinate forms of social union, [254]—Inconsistencies into which he was led by this method, [254]—The position which he assigns to women, [256]—The Platonic State half school-board and half marriage-board, [258]—Partial realisation of Plato’s polity in the Middle Ages, [259]—Contrast between Plato and the modern Communists, [259]—His real affinities are with Comte and Herbert Spencer, [261].
[VIII]. Reaction of Plato’s social studies on his metaphysics, [262]—The ideas resolved into different aspects of the relation between soul and body, [263]—Dialectic dissolution of the four fundamental contrasts between reality and appearance, [263]—Mind as an intermediary between the Ideas and the external world, [265]—Cosmogony of the Timaeus, [265]—Philosophy and theology, [267].
[IX]. Plato’s hopes from a beneficent despotism, [268]—The Laws, [269]—Concessions to current modes of thought, [270]—Religious intolerance, [271]—Recapitulation of Plato’s achievements, [272]—Fertility of his method, [273].
CHARACTERISTICS OF ARISTOTLE pages 275-329
[I]. Recent Aristotelian literature, [275]—Reaction in favour of Aristotle’s philosophy, [277]—and accompanying misinterpretation of its meaning, [278]—Zeller’s partiality for Aristotle, [280].
[II]. Life of Aristotle, [280]—His relation to Plato, 281-Aristotle and Hermeias; [284]—Aristotle and Alexander, [285]—Aristotle’s residence in Athens, flight, and death, [288]—His choice of a successor, [288]—Provisions of his will, [289]—Personal appearance, [289]—Anecdotes illustrating his character, [290]—Want of self-reliance and originality, [291].
[III]. Prevalent misconception of the difference between Aristotle and Plato, [291]—Plato a practical, Aristotle a theoretical genius, [293]—Contrast offered by their views of theology, ethics, and politics, [294]—Aristotle’s ideal of a State, [296]—His want of political insight and prevision, [297]—Worthlessness of his theories at the present day, [298].
[IV]. Strength and weakness of Aristotle’s Rhetoric, [299]—Erroneous theory of aesthetic enjoyment put forward in his Poetics, [300]—The true nature of tragic emotion, [303]—Importance of female characters in tragedy, [303]—Necessity of poetic injustice, [305]—Theory of the Catharsis, [306]—Aristotle’s rules for reasoning compiled from Plato, [307]—The Organon in Ceylon, [307].