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Platonists, their more or less pantheistic conception of the Deity, i.
163.
Practical nature of their philosophy, 329.
The Platonic ethics ascendant in Rome, 331
Pleasure the only good, according to the Utilitarians, i. 7.
Ill.u.s.trations of the distinction between the higher and lower parts of our nature in our pleasures, 83-85.
Pleasures of a civilised compared with those of a semi-civilised society, 86.
Comparison of mental and physical pleasures, 87, 88.
Distinction in kind of pleasure, and its importance in morals, 89-91.
Neglected or denied by Utilitarian writers, 89, _note_
Pliny, the elder, on the probable happiness of the lower animals, i. 87, _note_.
On the Deity, 164.
On astrology, 171, and _note_, 164, _note_.
His disbelief in the immortality of the soul, 182.
His advocacy of suicide, 215.
Never mentions Christianity, 336.
His opinion of earthquakes, 369.
And of comets, 369.
His facility of belief, 370.
His denunciation of finger rings, ii. 148
Pliny, the younger, his desire for posthumous reputation, i. 185, _note_.
His picture of the ideal of Stoicism, 186.
His letter to Trajan respecting the Christians, 437.
His benevolence, 242; ii. 77
Plotinus, his condemnation of suicide, i. 214.
His philosophy, 330
Plutarch, his defence of the bad poetry of the oracles, 165, _note_.
His mode of moral teaching, 175.
Basis of his belief in the immortality of the soul, 204.
On superst.i.tious fear of death, 206.
His letter on the death of his little daughter, 242.
May justly be regarded as the leader of the eclectic school, 243.
His philosophy and works compared with those of Seneca, 243.
His treatise on ”The Signs of Moral Progress,” 249.
Compared and contrasted with Marcus Aurelius, 253.
How he regarded the games of the arena, 286.
His defence of the ancient creeds, 322.