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INDEX
abduction (inference to the best explanation)
Achilles, 2.1, 3.1n, 3.2, 4.1n, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 7.1, 7.2
Acropolis, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 7.1
advice columns
Aeschines, 7.1, app1.1
Aeschylus, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1n, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Aesop
Agamemnon
Agathon, 1.1, 5.1n
agathon (good), see good, goodness
agon (competition)
akrasia (weakness of the will), 2.1n
Alcestis, n
Alcibiades, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2n
Alexander of Miletus, n
Alexander the Great, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1n
algorithms, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 8.1
Allen, Woody, 1.1, 1.2
Anabasis (Xenophon), 2.1n, app1.1
anamnesis (recollection), 4.1n, 7.1, 10.1
Anaximander, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Anytus, 2.1n, 7.1, 7.2
apeiron (boundless)
Aphrodite
Apollo, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2
Apollodorus
Apology (Plato), prl.1, 1.1n, 2.1n, 2.2n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 7.8, 9.1n, 9.2n, 9.3
Apology (Xenophon), 7.1, 7.2, app1.1
aporia (impasse), prl.1n, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1n
Ares
aretē (excellence or virtue), see virtue
Ariston (Plato’s father), n
Aristophanes, prl.1n, 1.1, 2.1n, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 7.2
Aristotle:
as Athenian resident, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
biological observations of, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1n
in Christian theology, 1.1n, 8.1, 9.1
influence of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5n, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Lyceum founded by, prl.1n, 2.1n, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1
Plato compared with, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2n, 2.1n, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1n
as Plato’s student, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1n, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1n, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2n, 8.1
political views of, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
teleology of, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
works of, prl.1, prl.2n, 1.1n, 3.1, 4.1n, 4.2, 5.1, app1.1
Artemis, 5.1, 5.2
astronomy, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
atheism, 5.1, 7.1
Athena, 3.1, 3.2
Athens:
agora of, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
amnesty in, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
archon basileus of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
autochthonous origins of, 3.1, app2.1
citizenship of, 3.1n, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, app2.1
Council of 500 (Boule) in, 2.1n, 3.1, 7.1
as democratic polis, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, app2.1
ekklêsia (assembly) of, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, app2.1
empire and imperial power of, 1.1n, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, app2.1n, app2.2n
Ethos of the Extraordinary in, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4n, 7.5, 7.6, 9.1, 9.2, app2.1
Four Hundred as rulers of, n
general amnesty declared in
gods of, 2.1n, 9.1
legal system of, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
military forces of, 3.1, 7.1
oligarchy of, 2.1n, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1n, 9.2
plague in, 7.1n, 7.2, app2.1, app2.2
Plato as citizen of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4n, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1
political situation in, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1n, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1n, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, app2.1n
religious institutions of, 2.1, 2.2n, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 9.1
slavery in, prl.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1n, 4.2n, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3, app1.1n
society of, 2.1n, 5.1
Sparta as rival of, 1.1, 3.1n, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1n, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
Thirty as rulers of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7
Three Thousand assembly in, 7.1, 7.2
walls of, 7.1n, 7.2, 7.3
women in, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2
athletics, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
atomic theory, 1.1n, 1.2
atopia (strangeness), 3.1, 7.1
Augustine, Saint, 3.1, 9.1
Axial Age, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 9.1
Bacon, Francis
barbarians, 2.1, 3.1n, 3.2, 5.1
Baumard, Nicolas, n
beauty
abstract, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1
in education, 4.1, 4.2
knowledge of, 2.1, 2.2n, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1
moral nature of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
physical, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, app1.1
qualities of, 2.1n, 5.1
in Sublime Braid, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
virtue and, 8.1, app1.1
beliefs:
false
knowledge compared with, 7.1, 9.1
personal, 2.1, 2.2
rational
true, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
Bendis
Bible, 2.1n, 2.2, 5.1
biology, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4n, 10.1n
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bohr, Niels
Boyer, Pascal, n
brain function, 1.1, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3, 4.1, 10.1
Buddha, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2
“bullshit,” 7.1, 10.1
Burnyeat, Myles, 1.1, 1.2n, 2.1n, 3.1n, 4.1, 9.1n
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, n
Callicles, 5.1, 9.1
Calvin, John
Catholic Church, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1
Cebes, 7.1, 7.2
censorship
Chaeronea, Battle of
chariot races, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2
Charmides, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Charmides (Plato), 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Chaucer, Geoffrey
chess, 1.1, 1.2
children, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1
chitōn (tunic), prl.1, 2.1n, 5.1n, 10.1
Chorus of Oceanides
Christianity, 1.1n, 2.1n, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1n, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Churchill, Winston S.
Clouds, The (Aristophanes), prl.1n
cognition, prl.1, 1.1n, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1n, 2.2n, 3.1, 10.1
coherence
common sense, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1
computers, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 4.1, 8.1
see also Internet
confabulation, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
Confucius, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2
Copernicus, Nicolaus
cosmology, prl.1n, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1
Cratylus (Plato), 5.1n
creation myths, 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
Critias, 2.1n, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
Crito, 7.1, 7.2
Crito (Plato), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Cyclopean architecture
daimōn (spirit), 5.1, 9.1, 9.2
Davidson, James, 5.1n, 5.2n
death
life after, 3.1n, 7.1, 9.1
preparation for, prl.1, 2.1, 7.1
transcendence of, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1n, 7.1, 9.1
De caelo (Simplicius)
decision-making
Delian League, 3.1, 7.1
Delphic oracle, 5.1, 5.2n, 7.1, 8.1 9.1
demiurge, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2
Democritus, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Demosthenes
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius), 1.1n
Deutsch, David, n
Dewey, John
Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion (Hume)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo)
dialogues, Platonic, prl.1n, 5.1
aesthetics of, prl.1, prl.2, 4.1n, 4.2, 4.3
characterization in, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1n
chronology of, prl.1n, 7.1, 9.1
as drama, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2n
as philosophical works, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2
style of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
translations of, prl.1, 3.1, 7.1
see also specific dialogues
Diogenes Laertius, 2.1n, 7.1n, 7.2
Dion of Syracuse, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1n
Dionysius I
Dionysius II
Dionysus, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1
Diotima, 3.1n, 4.1n, 5.1, 5.2
Divided Line, 9.1n, 9.2
divine madness
“Does Philosophy Matter?” (Fish), 1.1, 2.1n
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglas, William O.
Dover, Kenneth, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3n, 5.4, 5.5n
drama:
inner, 1.1, 5.1
tragic, prl.1, 2.1n, 5.1, 5.2
E=mc2, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1
Echecrates of Phlius, 7.1, 7.2
education:
beauty in, 4.1, 4.2
moral, 1.1, 2.1n, 2.2n, 2.3n, 5.1, 7.1
as play, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
of rulers, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2
teaching in, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
eikasia (lowest level of awareness), 9.1, 9.2n
Einstein, Albert, 1.1n, 1.2, 4.1
Elements (Euclid), 7.1n, 8.1n
Eleusinian mysteries, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1
Eleusis
Elis, n
Empedocles, 1.1, 1.2
Enlightenment, prl.1, 7.1n, 7.2
Epinomis (Plato), 8.1, 9.1n
epistemology, prl.1n, prl.2n, prl.3n, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1n, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3n, 10.1
erastês and erômenos (older lover and younger lover), 5.1, 5.2
erotogenesis, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
Eros, 1.1, 1.2n, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1n, 9.1
erōs (love), 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Ethical Answers Search Engine (EASE), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1
ethics, see morality
Ethics, The (Spinoza), 7.1n, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
ethōs (habit or custom), 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
Ethos of the Extraordinary, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4n, 7.5, 7.6, 9.1, 9.2, app2.1
Euclid, 1.1, 7.1n, 8.1n
Euripides, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
Euthydemus (Plato), 6.1, 7.1, 9.1n
Euthyphro, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
Euthyphro (Plato), 2.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Euthyphro Dilemma, 7.1, 7.2
existence:
of abstract forms, prl.1n, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
being vs. non-being in
reality of, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1
sublime as basis of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
existential dilemmas, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 9.1
Expanding Circle, The (Singer), 2.1n
Feynman, Richard, n
Fish, Stanley, 1.1, 2.1n, 5.1
Forms, Theory of, prl.1n, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1
Foucault, Michel, 5.1n, app1.1n
Frankfurt, Harry, 7.1, 7.2
freedom, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
Frege, Gottlob, 1.1, 7.1
Freud, Sigmund, 1.1, 4.1
Frogs, The (Aristophanes), prl.1n, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Funeral Oration of Pericles, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, app2.1, app2.2n
Galileo Galilei, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1n, 8.1n, 9.1, 9.2
game theory, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
geocentrism, 1.1, 9.1
geometry, 4.1, 4.2n, 4.3, 9.1
Glaucon, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3n
gnôthi seautón (know yourself), 5.1, 5.2
God, 1.1, 7.1, 9.1
communion with
existence of, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2
Hebrew conception of, prl.1, 3.1, 5.1
name of
Gödel, Kurt, 1.1n, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
God Is Not Great (Hitchens)
gods and goddesses, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
good, goodness, 1.1, 9.1
attainment of, 1.1, 2.1n, 3.1, 6.1
collective, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1
definition of, 1.1, 4.1
divine, 9.1, 9.2
justice and
personal standards of
pleasure and
in Sublime Braid, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Googleplex, 1.1, 59, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
Google search engine, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 8.1
Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), The (Vaidhyanathan), 2.1n
Gorgias (Plato), 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3n, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, app2.1n
government, 5.1, 7.1
democratic, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3n, 2.4, 4.1, 8.1
by elite (guardians), 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 9.1, 9.2
oligarchic, 2.1n, 3.1, 4.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1n, 9.2
tyrannical, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1n, 3.2, 3.3n, 3.4n, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3n, 5.1n, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Graeber, David
Greece, 1.1, 3.1
city-states (poleis) of, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
greater (Magna Graecia), 1.1n, 3.1, 5.1
heroes of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1n, 5.1, 5.2n, 7.1, 7.2
homosexuality in
Judaic culture compared with, prl.1, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Panhellenic identity of, prl.1, 2.1n, 3.1n, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1
philosophy of, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1n, 7.1; see also specific philosophers
religious traditions of
, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1
secularism of, 1.1n, 3.1, 3.2
Greek language, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1n
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1.1n, 3.1
Hades, 3.1n, 3.2n, 5.1
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Harmonices Mundi (Kepler)
harmony, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1
Harte, Verity, n
Hebrews, prl.1, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
hedonism, 2.1, 8.1
Heidegger, Martin, 7.1, 9.1
Helen, 3.1n, 3.2
Hellenica (Xenophon)
heredity, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Hermes, 5.1, 8.1
Herodotus, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1n
Hesiod, 4.1n, 4.2
Histories (Herodotus), 3.1, 5.1n
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 5.1n, 7.1n, app2.1
History of Western Philosophy, A (Russell), 1.1, app1.1
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf, n
Hobbes, Thomas
Holt, Jim, n
Holton, Gerald
Homer, prl.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4n, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1, 4.2n, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, app2.1
homosexuality
House of Fame, The (Chaucer)
Howard, Margo
hubris (pride), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1n, 7.1, 7.2, app2.1
humanism, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
Hume, David, prl.1, 1.1n, 3.1
ideology, 9.1, 9.2
Iliad (Homer), prl.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4n, 3.5, 4.1, 5.1
infanticide
infinity, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1
information:
aggregrate, 2.1, 4.1
cloud storage of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 8.1
knowledge compared with, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
search engines for, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 8.1
teaching of, 1.1, 4.1
usefulness of
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume), 1.1n
intelligence
knowledge and, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 8.1
level of, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
mathematical, 1.1, 2.1
Internet, 1.1n, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 4.1, 4.2 4.3, 8.1, 8.2
Ion (Plato), 4.1n
Ionia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1n, 3.2, 4.1n, 7.1
Ionian Enchantment, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1n, 7.1
Jainism, 3.1, 3.2
James, Henry, n
James, William
Jaspers, Karl, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Jehovah, 3.1n, 3.2, 5.1
Jesus Christ, 7.1, 9.1
Judaism, prl.1, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1
Jung, Carl Gustav
justice
political, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
standards of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1
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