Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-370) and index.

Prologue: conversation in the villa on the harbor (327a-336b) -- Red ucing the sophist to silence (336b-357a) -- The young men's and women's pressing questions (357a-368d) -- The origins of society and the state (368d-376c) -- The disciplines of the mind: literature and music (376c -403c) -- The disciplines of the body: nutrition, medicine, and physica l education (403c-412c) -- Objective justice (412c-434d) -- Subjective justice (434d-449a) -- Women and families (449a-471c) -- What is a phil osopher? (471c-484b) -- Philosophy and politics (484b-502c) -- What is an idea? (502c-521c) -- From mathematics to the dialectic (521c-541b) - - Critique of the four pre-communist systems of government: 1. timocrac y and oligarchy (541b-555b) -- Critique of the four pre-communist syste ms of government: democracy and tyranny (555b-573b) -- Justice and happ iness (573b-592b) -- Poetry and thought (592b-608b) -- Epilogue: the mo bile eternity of subjects (608b-end) -- Notes.