Politikus, authenticity, i. [307], [316 n.], iii. [185 n.], [265 n.];
date, i. [309], [410], [313], [315], [325];
purpose, iii. [188], [253], [257 n.], [261];
value, [190];
relation to Theætêtus, [187];
scenery and personages, [185];
in a logical classification all particulars of equal value, [195];
province of sensible perception narrower in Theætêtus, [256];
importance of founding logical partition on sensible resemblances, [255];
the attainment of the standard the purpose of each art, [260];
necessity of declaring standard, [262];
Plato’s views on mensuration, [260];
Plato’s defence against critics, [262];
the mythe of the kosmos, [265 n.];
causes principal and auxiliary, [266];
the king the principal cause, [ ib.];
Plato does not admit received classification of governments, [267];
three kinds of polity, [278];
true classification of governments, scientific or unscientific, [268];
unscientific government, or by many, counterfeit, [ ib.];
of unscientific governments, despot worst, democracy least bad, [270], [278];
true government, by the one scientific man, i. [273], iv. [280], [310 n.];
counter-theory in Protagoras, iii. [275];
government by fixed laws the second-best, [269];
scientific governor, unlimited by laws, [269];
distinguished from general, &c., [271];
aims at forming virtuous citizens, [272];
maintains ethical standard, [273];
natural dissidence of gentle and energetic virtues, [ib.];
excess of the energetic entails death or banishment, of the gentle, slavery, [ib.];
courage and temperance assumed, [282];
compared with Lachês, [282-4];
Charmidês, [ib.];
Menon, [283];
Protagoras, [262], [275];
Phædon, [262], [265 n.];
Phædrus, [257], [265 n.];
Parmenidês, [259];
Theætêtus, [184 n.], [187], [256];
Kratylus, [281], [329];
Philêbus, [262], [369 n.];
Republic, [257 n.], [279].
Πολυπράγμων, ii. [362 n.]
[Polybius], on music, iv. [306].
[Polytheism], early Greek explanation of phenomena by, i. [2];
believed in after genesis of philosophy, [3];
hostile to philosophy, [86];
substitution of physical forces for, ii. [402];
Euripides’ Hippolytus illustrates popular Greek religious belief, iv. [163 n.]
[Population], Malthus’ law of, iv. [201];
recognised by Plato and Aristotle, [202].
[Porphyry], on Metempsychosis, ii. [426 n.]
[Poste, Mr.], on Philêbus, iii. [365 n.], [369 n.], [381 n.], [384 n.], [390 n.], [396 n.], [397 n.];
abstract theories of Plato and Aristotle compared, [ib.]
[Potential] and actual, Aristotle’s distinction, iii. [134];
ens equivalent to, [204].
[Power], controversy of Aristotle with Megarics, i. [135];
Aristotle’s arguments not valid, [ 136-8];
Aristotle himself concedes the doctrine, [139 n.];
doctrine of Diodôrus Kronus, [140], [143];
defended by Hobbes, [143];
Brown on, [138 n.]
[Practical] life disparaged, ii. [355], iii. [329];
and philosophy, ii. [365 n.], [368 n.], [ib.], iii. [179], [183], iv. [51-4], i. [181 n.], [182];
uselessness of philosopher in, due to his not being called in by citizens, iv. [54];
condition of success in, ii. [359];
influence of belief on, i. [180 n.];
Boissier on, [157 n.]