Dialogue

  1 Phileb|     treat in common, such as the nature and kinds of pleasure, true
  2 Phileb|      true and false opinion, the nature of the good, the order and
  3 Phileb|          the chief good, or some nature higher than either; and
  4 Phileb|      partakes most of the higher nature, we must know under which
  5 Phileb|      deepened or intensified the nature of one or Being, by the
  6 Phileb|     appeared to be thrown on the nature of ideas when they were
  7 Phileb|         that ‘the good is of the nature of the finite,’ and that
  8 Phileb|        the conception of laws of nature derived from observation
  9 Phileb|          modern philosopher that nature does not proceed by chance.
 10 Phileb|         life and of the order of nature.~Two other points may be
 11 Phileb|    ascertained to be akin to the nature of the cause, while pleasure
 12 Phileb|        Greek ‘the good is of the nature of the finite,’ and, like
 13 Phileb|        evil, but rather a law of nature. The chief difference between
 14 Phileb|     pleasure as a restoration to nature, in his distinction between
 15 Phileb|         Plato. While the ethical nature of pleasure is scarcely
 16 Phileb|         is due to their abstract nature;—although we admit of course
 17 Phileb|       supreme mind? Thirdly, the nature of the fourth class. Fourthly,
 18 Phileb|       which he finds the eternal nature: this would be more naturally
 19 Phileb|          table. Like the supreme nature in the Timaeus, like the
 20 Phileb|      everywhere, in the order of nature and of mind, in the relations
 21 Phileb|          complete account of the nature of good and pleasure: 3.
 22 Phileb|         know also the number and nature of the intervals, and the
 23 Phileb|          imparts to pleasure the nature of the good. But where shall
 24 Phileb|       painful, but the return to nature, in which the elements are
 25 Phileb|         endeavour to analyze the nature of this association.~Opinion
 26 Phileb|        of the restoration—of our nature. But in passing from one
 27 Phileb|          They will say, that the nature of anything is best known
 28 Phileb|          extreme cases, e.g. the nature of hardness from the examination
 29 Phileb|     hardest things; and that the nature of pleasure will be best
 30 Phileb|      precedes them. Their morbid nature is illustrated by the lesser
 31 Phileb|          are feelings of a mixed nature, I will reserve the consideration
 32 Phileb|        the concrete, or to their nature in the abstract—as they
 33 Phileb|       and assumed them to be one nature; I affirmed that they were
 34 Phileb|    Epicurus to our own times the nature of pleasure has occupied
 35 Phileb|       overcame, were of the same nature. The pleasure of doing good
 36 Phileb|   noblest motives by which human nature can be animated. Neither
 37 Phileb|    passion to a rightly educated nature. The Utilitarian finds a
 38 Phileb|         is based upon the social nature of man; this sense of duty
 39 Phileb|       but to elevate their moral nature. Both in his own case and
 40 Phileb|  conception or conviction of the nature of happiness. The meaning
 41 Phileb|         with the Stoical ‘Follow nature,’ and seems to have no advantage
 42 Phileb|        another. The firm stoical nature will conceive virtue under
 43 Phileb|   deduced from the laws of human nature, says one; resting on the
 44 Phileb|        To satisfy an imaginative nature in any degree, the doctrine
 45 Phileb|        in law, in conceptions of nature, of an ideal good, and the
 46 Phileb|     revealed in Scripture and in nature. No philosophy has supplied
 47 Phileb|        reason and experience, in nature, history, and in our own
 48 Phileb|          an examination into the nature and character of the Aristotelian
 49 Phileb|         mind to be the author of nature. Let us note the remarkable
 50 Phileb|       words, ‘That in the divine nature of Zeus there is the soul
 51 Phileb|          deep insight into human nature which is shown by the repetition
 52 Phileb|         Observe, Protarchus, the nature of the position which you
 53 Phileb|     begin, and consider what her nature is. She has one name, and
 54 Phileb|         you at first what is the nature of the good, affirmed to
 55 Phileb|         up, which is a marvel of nature; for that one should be
 56 Phileb|        that I, Protarchus, am by nature one and also many, dividing
 57 Phileb|        unity is of this concrete nature, there is, as I was saying,
 58 Phileb| controversy.~PROTARCHUS: Of what nature?~SOCRATES: In the first
 59 Phileb|      knowledge of the number and nature of sounds is what makes
 60 Phileb|          low, and the number and nature of the intervals and their
 61 Phileb|       and what is the number and nature of them, and the same of
 62 Phileb|      have chosen contrary to the nature of the truly eligible, and
 63 Phileb|       which dwells in their very nature, prevent their having any
 64 Phileb|         mark or seal of some one nature, if possible, set upon them—
 65 Phileb|           SOCRATES: And now what nature shall we ascribe to the
 66 Phileb|         acknowledged it to be by nature one?~PROTARCHUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 67 Phileb|        see what is the place and nature of this life and to what
 68 Phileb|          that pleasure is of the nature of the infinite—in which
 69 Phileb|    elements which enter into the nature of the bodies of all animals,
 70 Phileb|          any power worthy of its nature. One instance will prove
 71 Phileb|      SOCRATES: And in the divine nature of Zeus would you not say
 72 Phileb|         is also a dissolution of nature and a generation of pain.~
 73 Phileb|         of harmony and return to nature is the source of pleasure,
 74 Phileb|          all things to their own nature is pleasure?~PROTARCHUS:
 75 Phileb|       instances admitting of the nature of good.~PROTARCHUS: You
 76 Phileb|       analysis helps to show the nature of both.~PROTARCHUS: Then
 77 Phileb|     outset we must determine the nature and seat of desire.~PROTARCHUS:
 78 Phileb|      very different; what common nature have we in view when we
 79 Phileb|          to be something of this nature?~PROTARCHUS: Of what nature?~
 80 Phileb|      nature?~PROTARCHUS: Of what nature?~SOCRATES: An object may
 81 Phileb|     arise out of a corruption of nature caused by concretions, and
 82 Phileb|        detestation which a noble nature has of the power of pleasure,
 83 Phileb|         Having thus examined the nature of pleasure from both points
 84 Phileb|         if we wanted to know the nature of any quality, such as
 85 Phileb|          we want to see the true nature of pleasures as a class,
 86 Phileb|         or in the derangement of nature, a man experiences two opposite
 87 Phileb|      description is very true to nature.~SOCRATES: And in these
 88 Phileb| considerations learn to know the nature of the ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS:
 89 Phileb|         then, let us examine the nature of envy.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~
 90 Phileb|  difficulty in showing the mixed nature of fear and love and similar
 91 Phileb|         in them is of the purest nature; and then the truest elements
 92 Phileb|          manner have this double nature, and yet only one name.~
 93 Phileb|      himself to be occupied with nature is really occupied with
 94 Phileb|       given to one thing and one nature; Socrates, on the other
 95 Phileb|        and further says, that in nature as in name they are two,
 96 Phileb|        now we must ascertain the nature of the good more or less
 97 Phileb|     understanding about the true nature of this and of all other
 98 Phileb|         whether this omnipresent nature is more akin to pleasure
 99 Phileb|        ridiculous or disgraceful nature of the action makes us ashamed;
100 Phileb|        and the like, the eternal nature has been found.~PROTARCHUS:
101 Phileb|          than the unsatisfactory nature of both of them.~PROTARCHUS:
102 Phileb|      nearer and more akin to the nature of the conqueror than pleasure.~