Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|      with the higher notion of absolute equality. But here observe
 2 Phaedo|     short of the conception of absolute equality with which they
 3 Phaedo|        degrees of good. Of the absolute goodness of any finite nature
 4 Phaedo|      evil both as relative and absolute; just as the riddles about
 5 Phaedo|       the eternal being of the absolute soul. There has been a clearer
 6 Phaedo|     Not that he insists on the absolute truth of his own particular
 7 Phaedo|       there or is there not an absolute justice?~Assuredly there
 8 Phaedo|     Assuredly there is.~And an absolute beauty and absolute good?~
 9 Phaedo|     And an absolute beauty and absolute good?~Of course.~But did
10 Phaedo|     not of these alone, but of absolute greatness, and health, and
11 Phaedo|       and above this, there is absolute equality? Shall we say so?~
12 Phaedo|        know the nature of this absolute essence?~To be sure, he
13 Phaedo|        the same sense in which absolute equality is equal? or do
14 Phaedo|        matter of equals and of absolute equality?~Precisely.~Then
15 Phaedo|        equals strive to attain absolute equality, but fall short
16 Phaedo|       recognize also that this absolute equality has only been known,
17 Phaedo|      sensible things aim at an absolute equality of which they fall
18 Phaedo|        have had a knowledge of absolute equality, or we could not
19 Phaedo|  always repeating, there is an absolute beauty, and goodness, and
20 Phaedo|   beauty, and goodness, and an absolute essence of all things; and
21 Phaedo| speaking, have a most real and absolute existence; and I am satisfied
22 Phaedo|        assume that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and
23 Phaedo|  anything beautiful other than absolute beauty should there be such,
24 Phaedo|       as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and I should say
25 Phaedo|        thinking, not only that absolute greatness will never be