Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|        body. The soul in her own essence, and the soul ‘clothed upon’
 2 Phaedo|         and strength, and of the essence or true nature of everything.
 3 Phaedo|          exact conception of the essence of each thing which he considers?~
 4 Phaedo|          nature of this absolute essence?~To be sure, he said.~And
 5 Phaedo|        we stamp with the name of essence in the dialectical process,
 6 Phaedo|        goodness, and an absolute essence of all things; and if to
 7 Phaedo|        from the existence of the essence of which you speak. For
 8 Phaedo|      discussion. Is that idea or essence, which in the dialectical
 9 Phaedo| dialectical process we define as essence or true existence—whether
10 Phaedo|        or true existence—whether essence of equality, beauty, or
11 Phaedo|       because to her belongs the essence of which the very name implies
12 Phaedo|  participation in its own proper essence, and consequently, as far