population: of Athens, 59 , 75 ; of Rome, and papacy, 412 -413, 415 ,
481 ; theory of, 723 , 724 , 726 , 780
Porphyry (Malchus), Greek Neoplatonic philosopher ( 2327-3047), 198 ,
199 , 287 , 296 , 359 , 465 , 472 , 477
Portugal, 368 , 442 , 569
Porrée, Gilbert de la, French scholastic theologian ( 1070-1154), 439
Porus, Indian King (fl. 4th cent. B.C.), 592
Posidonius (or Poseidonius), Syrian Greek Stoic philosopher ( 135?51?
B.C.), 216 , 258 -259, 277 , 297
Posterior Analytics, The ( Aristotle), 200 -202, 440 , 455
poverty, 26 , 72 *, 185 , 378 , 449 -450, 451 , 460 , 468 , 739 , 757
power, 194 , 328 , 509 , 580 , 585 , 620 , 621 , 719 , 728 729, 826 ; and
Epicurus, 244 -245; and ethics, 116 , 638 ; and Locke, 617 , 630 ; love
of, 100 , 135 , 136 , 230 , 747 ; and Machiavelli, 509 ; and modern State,
491 , 494 , 556 , 727 , 828 ; Nietzsche, 767 ; and philosophy, 230 , 494 ,
827 , 828 ; in Plato's Utopia, 114 ; political, 498 , 500 , 630 , 640 , 790 ;
social, 494 , 827 -828; and Socrates, 83 ; and Thrasymachus, 79
Power ( Russell), 786
practical philosophies, 792
pragmatism, 151 , 792 , 811 , 814 ; and truth, 34 , 77 , 551 , 816 -818
Pragmatism, a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking ( James), 814
, 816 -818
Praise of Folly, The ( Erasmus), 514 -516
predestination, 363 , 403 , 460 , 523 , 524
predicates, 198 , 706
premisses, 3 *, 196 , 269
pre-Platonic philosophy, 562
Presbyterians, 471 , 602
President, 640
pre-Socratics, 3 , 45 , 73 , 106 , 144 , 761
pressure groups, 332
pride, 538 , 749 , 828
Pride's Purge, 602
priest(s), priesthood, 23 , 461 , 476 , 477 , 478 , 485 , 486 , 523. See
also clergy