[Demosthenes], pupil of Plato, i. [261 n.];
rhetorical powers, iii. [408 n.];
teaching of Isokrates, iv. [150 n.];
adv. Leptinem contrasted with Leges, [315 n.]
[Descartes], advantages of protracted study, i. [404 n.];
accused of substituting physical for mental causes, ii. [401 n.];
argument for being of God, a “fallacy of confusion,” iii. [297 n.];
on criticism by report, i. [118 n.]
[Desire] for what is akin to us or our own, cause of friendship, ii. [182];
good, object of universal, [243], iii. [335], [371], [392 n.];
largest measure and all varieties of, are good, ii. [344];
belongs to the mind, presupposes a bodily want and memory of previous satisfaction, iii. [350];
exception, [351 n.], [387 n.]
[Despot], has no real power, ii. [324];
worst of unscientific governments, iii. [270], [278];
origin, iv. [81];
excess of despotism in Persia, [312];
Solon on, i. [219 n.];
Xenophon on interior life of, [218], [220];
Xenophon’s scheme of government, a wisely arranged Oriental despotism, [234].
[Determining], Pythagorean doctrine of the, i. [11];
the, iii. [346];
it is intelligence, [348].
[Deuschle], on Kratylus, iii. [325 n.]
[Deycks], on Megarics, i. [127 n.], [136 n.]
[Dialectic], little or none in earliest theorists, i. [93];
Demokritus’ influence on its growth, [82];
of Zeno the Eleate, [93]; iii. [107];
its purpose and result, i. [98];
compared with Parmenidês, [100];
early physics discredited by growth of, [91];
its introduction changes the character of philosophy, [105], [107];
repugnant to Herakleiteans, [106 n.];
influence of Drama and Dikastery, [385];
debate common in Sokratic age, [370], ii. [284];
died out in later philosophy, i. [394 n.];
disputations in the Middle Ages, [397 n.];
modern search for truth goes on silently, [369];
process per se interesting to Plato, [403], [406];
has done more than any one else to interest others in it, [405];
its importance, [91], [354], [372], ii. [167], [221];
debate a generating cause of friendship, [188 n.];
and Eristic, [210], [221 n.];
of Sokrates, [x];
contrasted with Sophists’, [197], i. [124];
Sokrates first applied negative analysis to the common consciousness, [385], [389 n.];
to social, political, ethical, topics, [385];
necessity of negative vein, [91], [371], [373], [386], [394 n.], [421], [444], [130];
a value by itself, iii. [51], [70], [85], [149-50], [176], [184 n.], [284], [422];
see [Negative Method];
procedure of Sokrates repugnant to Athenian public, i. [387], ii. [305];
colloquial companion necessary to Sokrates, [287];
Sokrates asserts right of satisfaction for his own individual reason, i. [386];
Sokrates’ reason for attachment to, iii. [258 n.];
Sokrates to the last insists on freedom of, ii. [379];
stimulates, i. [420], [449], iv. [52 n.];
as stimulating, not noticed in Republic training, [208];
its negative and positive aspect, illustrated in Alkibiadês I. and II. , ii. [7];
indiscriminate, not insisted on in Gorgias, [367];
protest against, iii. [335];
Euthydemus popular among enemies of, ii. [222];
common want of scrutiny, i. [398 n.];
value of formal debate, as corrective of fallacies, ii. [221];
its actual and anticipated effects, [11];
Sokrates’ positive solutions illusory, [26];
its ethical basis, iii. [113];
autonomy of the individual mind, [147], [297], [298];
contrast with the Leges, [148];
Aristotle on, i. [133 n.];
obstetric method, lead of the respondent followed, [368];
the respondent makes the discoveries for himself, [367];
assumptions necessary in, iii. [251];
precepts for, [91 n.];
long answers inadmissible, ii. [281];
brought to bear on Sokrates himself, iii. [57], [89];
the sovereign purifier, [197];
its result, Knowledge, i. [396];
contrasted with lectures, ii. [277], iii. [337 n.];
alone useful for teaching, [34], [49], [53];
a test of the expository process, i. [358], [396];
attainment of dialectical aptitude, purpose of Sophistês and Politikus, iii. [261];
antithesis of rhetoric and, i. [433], ii. [ 52-3],[70], [277], [278 n.], [282], [303];
difference of method, illustrated in Protagoras, [300];
superiority over rhetoric, claimed, [282];
issue unsatisfactorily put, [369];
rhetoric, as a real art, is comprised in, iii. [30], [34];
rhetoric superior in usefulness and celebrity, [360], [380];
Plato’s desire for celebrity in rhetoric and, [408];
its object, definition, i. [452], ii. [318];
its two processes, definition and division, iii. [29], [39];
testing of definitions by clothing them in particulars, iv. [7 n.];
Inductive and Syllogistic, ii. [27];
and Demonstrative, Aristotle’s two intellectual methods, [363];
the purest of all cognitions, iii. [360];
and geometry, two modes of mind’s procedure applicable to ideal world, iv. [65];
requires no diagrams, deals with forms only, descending from highest, [66];
is the consummation of all the sciences, gives the contemplation of the ideas, [75];
one of the manifestations τοῦ φιλοσοφεῖν, [150 n.];
standard for classifying sciences, iii. [ 382-3], [394];
valuable principle, [395];
exercises in, iv. [76];
Republic contradicts other dialogues, [207-212];
difference of Aristotle’s and Plato’s view, i. [363];
mixture in Plato of poetical fancy and religious mysticism with dialectic theory, iii. [16];
distinct aptitudes required by Aristotle for, ii. [54];
Aristotle on its dissecting function, [70 n.];
Stoic View, i. [371 n.];
Theopompus, [450].
[Dialogues], the Sokratic, i. [x], [xi];
the lost, of Aristotle, [262 n.], [356 n.];
of Sokratici viri, [111], [114];
of Plato, give little information about him personally, [262];
different in form from Aristotle’s, [356 n.];
vary in value, ii. [19];
variety of Plato, i. [344];
dramatic pictures, not historical, [419 n.], ii. [33 n.], [150], [155 n.], [163], [172], [195], [199], [203], [265 n.], iii. [9 n.], [19], [25];
of common form — Plato never speaks in his own name, i. [344];
reluctant to publish doctrines on his own responsibility, [350], [352], [355], [361 n.];
may have published under the name of others, [360];
his lectures differ from, in being given in his own name, [402];
Plato assumed impossibility of teaching by written exposition, [350], [355], ii. [56 n.], [64];
assumption intelligible in his day, i. [357];
Sokratic elenchus, a test of the expository process, [358];
of Search predominate, [366];
a necessary preliminary to those of Exposition, ii. [201];
their basis, Sokratic doctrine that false persuasion of knowledge is universal, i. [367], [393];
illustrated by Hippias and Charmidês, ii. [64], [163];
appeal to authority, suppressed in Academics, i. [368];
debate common in the Sokratic age, [370];
process per se interesting to Plato, [403];
the obstetric method — lead of the respondent followed, [368];
modern search for truth goes on silently, [369];
purpose to stimulate intellect, and form verifying power, iii. [177], [188], [284];
novelty and value of this, [190];
process of generalisation always kept in view in, i. [406];
affirmative and negative veins distinct, [399], [402], [420];
often no ulterior affirmative end, [375];
but Plato presumes the search will be renewed, [395];
value as suggestive, and reviewing under different aspects, ii. [69];
untenable hypothesis that Plato communicated solutions to a few, i. [xii], [360], [401];
no assignable interdependence, [407];
each has its end in itself, [xii], [344], [375], [400 n.], ii. [300 n.], iii. [71], [85], [93], [176], [179], [184 n.], [284], [332], [400], [420], iv. [138];
of Exposition, pedagogic tone, iii. [368 n.];
Plato’s change in old age, iv. [273], [320], [380], [424], i. [244];
Xenophon compared, [ ib.];
order for review, i. [408];
see [Canon].