PLATO, AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES.

 

 

 

 

PLATO,

and the

OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES.

 

by

GEORGE GROTE,

author of the ‘history of greece’.

 

A NEW EDITION.

 

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

 

Vol. IV.

 

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1888.

The right of Translation is reserved.

 

 

 

CONTENTS.

 
 
 
CHAPTER XXXV.
PLATONIC REPUBLIC — ABSTRACT.
Declared theme of the Republic — Expansion and multiplication of the topics connected with it1
Personages of the dialogue2
Views of Kephalus about old ageib.
Definition of Justice by Simonides — It consists in rendering to every man what is owing to himib.
Objections to it by Sokrates — There are cases in which it is not right to restore what is owing, or to tell the truth3
Explanation by Polemarchus — Farther interrogations by Sokrates — Justice renders what is proper and suitable: but how? in what cases, proper? Under what circumstances is Justice useful?4
The just man, being good for keeping property guarded, must also be good for stealing property — Analogies cited5
Justice consists in doing good to friends, evil to enemies — But how, if a man mistakes who his friends are, and makes friends of bad men?6
Justice consists in doing good to your friend, if really a good man: hurt to your enemy, with the like proviso. Sokrates affirms that the just man will do no
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