CHAPTER VII. PLATO, 119 ABDERA AND ATHENS, 119 THE DIFFICULTIES IN UNDERSTANDING THE TEACHING OF PLATO, 120 THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF PLATO, 121 1. Plato’s Student Life, 121 2. Plato as Traveler, 122 3. Plato as Teacher of the Academy, 124 CONCERNING THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO, 126 THE FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATO’S DOCTRINE, 128 1. His Inherited Tendencies, 128 2. His Philosophical Sources, 130 THE DIVISIONS OF PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY, 131 SUMMARY OF PLATO’S DOCTRINE, 132 THE FORMATION OF PLATO’S METAPHYSICS, 132 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLATO’S METAPHYSICS――THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLATO’S IDEAS IN THE TWO DRAFTS, 136 BRIEF COMPARISON OF THE TWO DRAFTS OF THE IDEAS, 137 COMPARISON OF THE TWO DRAFTS OF IDEAS IN MORE DETAIL, 137 1. The Number of Ideas in the Earlier and Later Drafts compared, 137 2. The Relation of the Ideas and the World of Nature in the Two Drafts compared, 138 3. The Relation among the Ideas in the Two Drafts compared, 140 PLATO’S CONCEPTION OF GOD, 141 PLATO’S CONCEPTION OF PHYSICAL NATURE, 142 PLATO’S CONCEPTION OF MAN, 144 PLATO’S DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY, 146 1. The Immortality of Pre-Existence, 146 2. The Immortality of Post-Existence, 149 THE TWO TENDENCIES IN PLATO, 150 PLATONIC LOVE, 151 PLATO’S THEORY OF ETHICS, 153 1. Development of Plato’s Theory of the Good, 153 2. The Four Cardinal Virtues, 154 3. Plato’s Theory of Political Society, 155 APPENDIX――JOWETT’S SELECTION OF PASSAGES FROM PLATO FOR ENGLISH READERS, 158