Apology
Republic book I and II
Republic books III and IV
Republic books V and VI
Mystery
100

The living creature that S compares himself with.

The gadfly

100

C's view of justice.

Telling the truth and giving back what is owed.

100

Definition of justice.

Minding one's own business or doing what is proper to your nature.

100

The three tiers of reality.

Being, becoming, non-Being.

100

The first six words of the Republic.

"I went down to the Piraeus."

200

The two accusations raised against S.

Making the weaker argument stronger and promoting non-Athenian gods.

200

The three kinds of good articulated by Glaucon.

Good in itself, for its consequences, and in itself and for its consequences.

200

The necessary features of a perfectly unjust person.

Must seem to be perfectly just while really being perfectly unjust.


200

The definition of a dream.

Mistaking the likeness of something as the thing itself.

200

The reason why S believed in a hierarchy between ideas and physical objects.

Physical objects undergo change, which implies that they can be better or worse.

Ideas are perfect. If ideas changed then we admit that they are not perfect.

300
S's defence against those who say that he speculates about the cosmos.

S is concerned only with the human being and morality.

300

The medical condition that is derived from the name Glaucon.

Glaucoma.

300

The primary metaphor used to describe lying in relation to the citizens.

Medicine and sickness.

300

The three basic requirements of knowledge.

Intellect, idea, and the good.

300

The philosophical concept that best describes S's first account of the ideal city.

Necessity.

400

The two reasons we should not fear death.

Like sleeping and we will see our heroes.

400

The name given by Glaucon to S's ideal city.

City of pigs/sows.

400

The philosophical concept introduced by Glaucon into S's ideal city.

Contingency.

400

The reason why philosophers are useless.

The refusal of citizens to accept the role of the philosopher in the city.

400

S's tactic to calm Thrasymachus down.

Lying to him

500

The definition of wisdom.

Knowledge of one's own ignorance of wisdom.

500

The method of discerning the virtue of the soul.

Knowledge of a thing's nature makes possible the virtue of the soul.

500

The location of moderation in the soul.

In both wisdom and spiritedness.

500

The two things that the good gives to the universe.

Makes knowledge and existence of all things in the universe possible.

500

The role that ideas play in relation to physical objects.

Ideas are a model or paradigm for physical objects.