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CONTENTS
PART II, APPENDIX (BOOKS IV, 445 B-V, 471 c). THE POSITION OP WOMEN
AND THE USAGES OP WAR
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XV (445 B-V. 457 B). The Equality of Women 144
XVI (457 B-466 D). Abolition of the Family for the Guardians 155
XVII (466 1)-471 c). Usages of War 168
PART III (Books V, 471 c-VII). THE PHILOSOPHER KING
XVIII (471 c-474 B). The Paradox: Philosophers must be Kings 175
XIX (474 B-48o). Definition of the Philosopher. The Two Worlds 179
xx: (vi. 484 A-487 A). The Philosopher's Fitness to Rule IIlg
XXI (487 B-497 A). Why the Philosophic Nature is useless or corrupted
in existing Society 193
XXII (497 A-502 c). A Philosophic Ruler is not an Impossibility 205
XXIII (502 C-S09 c). The Good as the Highest Object of Knowledge
• 211
XXIV (509 0-511 E). Four Stages of Cognition. The Line 221
XXV (vii. 514 A-521 B). The Allegory of the Cave 227
XXVI (521 C-S31 c). Higher Education. Mathematics 235
§ I (524 0-526 c). Arithmetic 240
§ 2 (526 C-S27 c). Geometry 243
§ 3 (527 0-528 E). Solid Geometry 244
§ 4 (528 E-530 c). Astronomy 246
§ 5 (530 C-S31 c). Harmonics 249
XXVII (531 C-S35 A). Dialectic. 250
XXVIII (535 A-541 s). Programme of Studies 256
PART IV (Books VIII-IX). THE DECLINE OF SOCmTY AND OF
THE SOUL. COMPARISON OF THE JUST AND UNJUST LIVES
XXIX (viii. 543 A-550 c). The Fall of the Ideal State. Timocracy
and the Timocratic Man 265
xxx: (550 C-S55 s). Oligarchy (Plutocracy) and the Oligarchic
Man 273
XXXI (555 B-562 A). Democracy and the Democratic Man . 279
XXXII (562 A-ix. 576 B). Despotism and the Despotic Man 287
XXXIII (576 B-588 A). The Just and Unjust Lives compared in respect
of Happiness • 301
XXXIV (588 B-592 B). Justice, not Injustice, is profitable 315