Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

INDEX

and blindness, 128n15
and dreaming, 4–5
and gymnastik, 80n80
and images, 9, 47, 198, 232–33, 234n2
in Parmenides, 156
in Philebus, 161, 173n49
in Platonic metaphysics, 213
and training, 74n42, 75n46, 78n67
use of term in Homer, 114, 127n7
fourfold ontology in Philebus, xxvii, 154,
164 – 65

geometry (mathematics), 5, 6–9, 231–32
giants, imagery of, 122
gift of classifi cation, xxvii, 153, 163–65,
171n3 4
Glaucon
contrasted with Adeimantus, 186
on the Good, 10–11
and medical model, 47, 48–61, 65–68
in Republic, 86, 187–88
Good, the
and eros, 182– 83, 186
in Philebus, 154, 158, 164–65, 166 –68
in Republic, 10
Gorgias (dialogue), xxv, 30, 43, 83, 112
grounding strategy in middle period
works, xxviii, 175, 179–82, 186–88,
190n16
guardians, education of, 60, 74n42,
117–19, 120–21, 123n14
gumnastike ̄ (gymnastic education), 43,
48–53, 57–58, 60, 65, 72n28, 75n45,
75n46, 75n50, 79n78, 80n80

hearing, imagery of, 234n4
hedonism, 159–60
Heracles, imagery of, 123–24
Heraclitus, 209n22
Herodotus, xxi, 21, 39n34
Hesiod, 60, 76n53, 129n24
Hippocrates, son of Apollodorus, 89,
93, 94, 97
Hippocratic medicine, xxv, 42, 62–63,
70n7, 71n18
Hippothales, 92–93, 94, 98
history, problem of, 16
home (oikos), 161, 166, 168
Homer
censorship of, 60

methodos, 113 –27

and navigation, 209n16

Plato’s use of, xxvi–xxvii

use of by later authors, xxixn2

horses, imagery of, 124–25, 221–22

hubris and pain, 124–25, 128n22

image-making, 230–34

by Plato, 11–13, 233

by Socrates, 9–11

imagery in Homer, 113–27

images and imagery

and forms, 9, 47, 198, 232–33, 234n2

Plato’s use of, xxix

in Republic, xxiv

types of, 234n2

uses of, 212–37

vocal speech as, 163

see also specifi c images, e.g., labyrinth,

metaphor of

imitation (mime ̄si s)

critique of in Republic, xxiv, 3–6, 61

falsehood and, 224

and images, 234n2

of a model, 103, 109n40, 227–28, 229

poetry as, 129n24

in Symposium, 177–79

use of by Plato, 63

immortality of the soul

and demonstrative strategy, 188

images of, 199, 201, 217, 218–19, 222

in Phaedo, 203–5, 214

and setting of dialogue, xvii

and unifi cation of eros and themos,

77n59

Ion (dialogue), 113, 117, 127n10

journey, metaphor of, 207–8

judges (dichastai) in medical model,

54–57

justice in Republic, 11–12

knowledge

measurement of, 143–46

in Theaetetus, 138 – 43

vs. belief, 6 –9

labyrinth, metaphor of, 194, 210n41

as redirection, 206–7

Laches (dialogue), 82