The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic, 2016a

INDEX
Numbers are to the 96 sections of the guide.
Abstract thinking, 51, 60, 65, 66, 67,
68
Achilles, 24, 26, 74
Adeimantus, 15, 46, 54, 58, 77, 96
Aeneas, 24
Aeschylus, 22, 96
Afterlife, 3, 24, 76, 93, 95, 96
Agamemnon, 74, 90
Alcohol, 2, 30, 44, 77, 81, 82
Allegory of the cave. See Cave.
Alliances, 1, 5, 36
Ambiguity, 17, 57
Andromache, 74
Anger, 26, 43, 55, 91
Anselm, 22
Appearance and reality, 6, 42, 51, 58,
60, 61, 62, 63, 84, 85, 90
Appetitive part of the soul and its
desires, 2, 19, 24, 25, 26, 42,
43, 44, 58, 63, 74, 76, 78, 80,
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 91, 94;
Necessary and unnecessary
appetites, 76, 78, 82; Lawless
desires, 80, 81, 82, 83; See also
Democratic soul; Oligarchic
soul; Sexual desire; Thirst;
Tyrannical soul
Apollo, 37
Architecture, 29
Arete. See Virtue
Aristocratic city, 45, 51, 72, 87, 88
Aristocratic soul. See Philosophers
and philosophy
Aristotle, 49, 57
Artistic representation, 21, 22, 23, 24,
26, 27, 28, 29, 60, 61, 90, 91,
92
Assembly lines, 18
Astronomy, 66
Athens, 1, 2, 36, 47, 50, 69, 77
Athletes, 9, 30, 43, 47
Auxiliaries, 19, 20, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39,
40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49,
50, 73; Education of, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
32.
Bad. See Good
Baseball game, form of, 51
Beautiful, 29, 32, 40, 47, 51, 52, 55,
56, 59, 60, 68, 77, 84, 90, 96
Begging, 54
Behavioral genetics, 72
Being. See Forms
Being and not-being. See particular