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

Feudal societies, 73
Fine. See Beautiful
Foolishness, 25, 45, 85
Force, the, 90
Foreign policy, 33, 36, 38
Forms, 29, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65,
66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 82, 84, 85,
90, 94
Fortune (magazine), 76
France before the Revolution, 75
Franklin, Benjamin, 76
Freedom, 2, 13, 24, 40, 45, 53, 58, 61,
63, 68, 71, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83,
94
Freud, Sigmund, 43
Friends and enemies, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14,
23, 24, 29, 44, 46, 73, 79, 82,
83, 87. 95
Function, 10
Glaucon, 1, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
19, 43, 45, 46, 47, 53, 71, 83,
85, 95, 96
Glaucus, 94
Geometry, 60, 66
Gifted students, 55, 68
Gods, 1, 3, 13, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 34, 37, 76, 85, 90, 92, 94,
95; See also Apollo, Glaucus,
Hephaestus, Hera, Zeus
Good: Every soul pursues, 58;
Flawlessly, 22; For its own
sake and for its consequences,
11, 14, 15, 64; Form of the, 51,
57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 70, 82,
85; Knowledge of, 38, 70, 85;
Ordering things with respect to
the, 42, 56, 58, 85; See also
Benefiting and harming;
Conscience; Gods; Virtue
Greed, 1, 26, 35, 52
Greeks and non-Greeks, 50
Grief, 24, 91
Guardian spirits, 50, 96
Guardians. See Auxiliaries, Ruling
and rulers
Guarneri String Quartet, 41
Gyges, 13
Happiness, 2, 14, 19, 36, 48, 49, 60,
64, 71, 76, 78, 79, 83, 84, 85,
86, 89, 91, 95
Harming. See Benefiting and
harming
Harmonia. See Music and
musicianship
Harmony, 28, 29, 32, 40, 44, 66, 83
Health, 10, 11, 19, 30, 31, 37, 42, 45,
76
Hector, 74, 90
Helen, 24, 90
Hephaestus, 25
Hera, 25
Heroes, 6, 24, 26, 90
Historians, 53
Hitler, 39, 82
Homer, 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,