Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|    doctrine of the alternation of opposites.) ‘Aesop would have represented
 2 Phaedo| philosophical assumption that all opposites—e.g. less, greater; weaker,
 3 Phaedo|           you not only that ideal opposites exclude one another, but
 4 Phaedo|         one another, but also the opposites in us. I, for example, having
 5 Phaedo|       with the old assertion that opposites generated opposites. But
 6 Phaedo|          that opposites generated opposites. But that, replies Socrates,
 7 Phaedo|           the mutual exclusion of opposites is not only true of the
 8 Phaedo|           is not only true of the opposites themselves, but of things
 9 Phaedo|           that the alternation of opposites is not the same as the generation
10 Phaedo|        which he draws between the opposites and the things which have
11 Phaedo|         the things which have the opposites, still individuals fall
12 Phaedo|    argument of the alternation of opposites is replaced by this. And
13 Phaedo|       Heracleitean alternation of opposites, and proceeding to the Pythagorean
14 Phaedo|         not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
15 Phaedo|  opposites generated out of their opposites? I mean such things as good
16 Phaedo|       there are innumerable other opposites which are generated out
17 Phaedo|        which are generated out of opposites. And I want to show that
18 Phaedo|          want to show that in all opposites there is of necessity a
19 Phaedo|           And is this true of all opposites? and are we convinced that
20 Phaedo|         them are generated out of opposites?~Yes.~And in this universal
21 Phaedo|          necessarily holds of all opposites, even though not always
22 Phaedo|            And these, if they are opposites, are generated the one from
23 Phaedo|           one of the two pairs of opposites which I have mentioned to
24 Phaedo|     return of elements into their opposites, then you know that all
25 Phaedo|        less the greater, and that opposites were simply generated from
26 Phaedo|        were simply generated from opposites; but now this principle
27 Phaedo|          then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now
28 Phaedo|       speaking of things in which opposites are inherent and which are
29 Phaedo|           them, but now about the opposites which are inherent in them
30 Phaedo|         them; and these essential opposites will never, as we maintain,
31 Phaedo|     aiming:—not only do essential opposites exclude one another, but
32 Phaedo|       themselves opposed, contain opposites; these, I say, likewise
33 Phaedo|       which repel the approach of opposites.~Very true, he said.~Suppose,
34 Phaedo|     opposed, and yet do not admit opposites—as, in the instance given,
35 Phaedo|         conclusion, that not only opposites will not receive opposites,
36 Phaedo|        opposites will not receive opposites, but also that nothing which