The Republic · ¶4785

Art, influence of, on character, 3. 400 foll.; —art of building, ib. 401 A; 4. 438 C; carpentry, 4. 428 C; calculation, 7. 524, 526 B; 10. 602; cookery, 1. 332 C; dyeing, 4. 429 D; embroidery, 3. 401 A; exchange, 2. 369 C; measurement, 10. 602; money-making, 1. 330; 8. 556; payment, 1. 346; tactics, 7. 522 E, 525 B; weaving, 3. 401 A; 5. 455 D; weighing, 10. 602 D; —the arts exercised for the good of their subject, 1. 342, 345–347 [cp. Euthyph. 13]; interested in their own perfection, 1. 342; differ according to their functions, ib. 346; full of grace, 3. 401 A; must be subject to a censorship, ib. B; causes of the deterioration of, 4. 421; employment of children in, 5. 467 A; ideals in, ib. 472 D; chiefly useful for practical purposes, 7. 533 A; —the arts and philosophy, 6. 495 E, 496 C (cp. supra 5. 475 D, 476 A); —the handicraft arts a reproach, 9. 590 C; —the lesser arts (τεχνύδρια), 5. 475 D; (τέχνια), 6. 495 D; —three arts concerned with all things, 10. 601.

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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