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 it
1
Personages of the dialogue
2
Views of Kephalus about old age
ib.
Definition of Justice by Simonides — It consists in rendering to every man what is owing to him
ib.
Objections to it by Sokrates — There are cases in which it is not right to restore what is owing, or to tell the truth
3
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 cited
5
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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