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

Painters and painting, 19, 29, 56, 57,
90
Particular things, 51, 53, 56, 57, 58,
59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 70, 85,
90
Patroclus, 24
Peace, 5, 50
Pedophilia, 16
Peloponnesian War, 1, 2, 36, 73
Pericles, 2
Persians, 41
Persuasion, 1, 55
Philosophers and philosophy, 42, 51,
52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 64, 67, 68,
70, 73, 77, 78, 83, 84, 85, 88,
90, 91, 94, 96
Philosophical conversation. See
Dialectic
Physical training, 30, 32, 68, 74, 76
Physicians. See Medicine
Piety, 1, 38, 48, 76
Piraeus, 1
Plato, 1, 9, 86, 92
Playing, 37, 68
Plays. See Poets and poetry
Pleasures, 2, 11, 14, 15, 19, 21, 29,
33, 39, 42, 43, 58, 63, 64, 77,
78, 82, 84, 85, 86, 92; Of
anticipation, 85, 86; Of
attainment, 85; Pure, 85, Stable,
85; See also Appetitive part of
the soul; Rational part of the
soul; Spirited part of the soul
Plutarch, 42
Poets and poetry, 3, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 74, 89, 90, 91, 92; See
also Homer; Artistic
representation; Simonides
Polemarchus, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 41, 46, 96
Police. See Law enforcement
Political science, 55
Politicians (modern), 8, 13, 20, 35,
38, 52, 64, 72, 75, 77, 88
Poverty, 36, 42, 75, 76, 77, 95, 96
Power, the corrupting effect of, 13,
20, 35, 73, 79, 82
Praise, 43, 74, 75, 85, 94
Private and public, 73, 74, 75
Private property, 35, 47, 73
Promiscuity, 48
Protagoras, 69
Psyche (psuche). See Soul
Punishment. See Rewards and
punishments
Purple dye (metaphor), 39
Qur’an, 21
Rational part of the soul and its
Desires, 32, 42, 43, 44, 51, 52,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 73,
74, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 87, 91,
94; See also Philosophers and
philosophy
Reason. See Understanding; Rational
part of the soul
Reciprocity, 15
Reflections, 60, 61, 90