The Republic · ¶5263

Philosopher, the, has the quality of gentleness, 2. 375, 376; 3. 410; 6. 486 C; ‘the spectator of all time and all existence,’ 6. 486 A [cp. Theaet. 173 E]; should have a good memory, ib. D, 490 E, 494 A; 7. 535; has his mind fixed upon true being, 6. 484, 485, 486 E, 490, 500 C, 501 D; 7. 521, 537 D; 9. 581, 582 C (cp. 5. 475 E; 7. 520 B, 525, and Phaedo 82; Phaedr. 249; Theaet. 173 E; Soph. 249 D, 254); his qualifications and excellences, 6. 485 foll., 490 D, 491 B, 494 B [cp. Phaedo 68]; corruption of the philosopher, ib. 491 foll.; is apt to retire from the world, ib. 496 [cp. Theaet. 173]; does not delight in personal conversation, ib. 500 B [cp. Theaet. 174 C]; must be an arithmetician, 7. 525 B; pleasures of the philosopher, 9. 581 E: —Philosophers are to be kings, 5. 473 (cp. 6. 487 E, 498 foll., 501 E foll.; 7. 540; 8. 543; 9. 592); are lovers of all knowledge, 5. 475; 6. 486 A, 490; true and false, 5. 475 foll.; 6. 484, 491, 494, 496 A, 500; 7. 535; to be guardians, 2. 375 (see Guardians); why they are useless, 6. 487 foll.; few in number, ib. E, 496, 499 B, 503 B [cp. Phaedo 69 C]; will frame the state after the heavenly pattern, ib. 501; 7. 540 A; 9. 592; education of, 6. 503; philosophers and poets, 10. 607 [cp. Laws 12. 967].

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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