A) gives perhaps the best insight into his meaning: ‘If we are not able to hunt the good with one idea only, with three we may take our prey,—Beauty, Symmetry, Truth.’ The three were inseparable to the Greek mind, and no conception of perfection could be formed in which they did not unite. (Cp. Introduction, pp. lxix, xcvii).]
Ideal state, is it possible? 5. 471, 473; 6. 499; 7. 540 (cp. 7. 520, and Laws 4. 711 E; 5. 739); how to be commenced, 6. 501; 7. 540:
—ideals, value of, 5. 472. For the ideal state, see City, Constitution, Education, Guardians, Rulers, etc.
Ignorance, nature of, 5. 477, 478; an inanition (κένωσις) of the soul, 9. 585.
Iliad, the style of, illustrated, 3. 392 E foll.; mentioned, ib. 393 A. Cp. Homer, Odyssey.
Ilion, see Troy.
Illegitimate children, 5. 461 A.
Illusions of sight, 7. 523; 10. 602 [cp. Phaedo 65 A; Phil. 380, 42 D; Theaet. 157 E].
Images, (i.e. reflections of visible objects), 6. 510; 10. 596 (cp. Tim. 52 D).
Imitation in style, 3. 393, 394; 10. 596 foll., 600 foll.; affects the character, 3. 395; thrice removed from the truth, 10. 596, 597, 598, 602 B; concerned with the weaker part of the soul, ib. 604.
Imitative poetry, 10. 595; arts, inferior, ib. 605.
Imitators, ignorant, 10. 602.
Immortality, proof of, 10. 608 foll., (cp. 6. 498 C, and see Soul).
Impatience, uselessness of, 10. 604 C.