Dialogue

 1 Phileb|            higher good will have a right to the second. They agree,
 2 Phileb|           to ask how he can have a right to attribute a new predicate (
 3 Phileb|     eristic and dialectic. And the right way of proceeding is to
 4 Phileb|          pleasures associated with right opinion, and others with
 5 Phileb|            will indicate to us the right track. They will say, that
 6 Phileb|          For the universal test of right actions (how I know them)
 7 Phileb|          human life depends upon a right estimate of pleasures greater
 8 Phileb|         has cast their thoughts of right and wrong in another mould;
 9 Phileb|        Utility is coextensive with right, and that no action can
10 Phileb|          and that no action can be right which does not tend to the
11 Phileb|          class of actions are made right or wrong by their consequences
12 Phileb|        preference of expediency to right, but one of the highest
13 Phileb|            sense: Are our ideas of right and wrong innate or derived
14 Phileb|      natural sense of religion and right.~We may further remark that
15 Phileb|  hesitation in determining what is right and wrong. The principles
16 Phileb|         alone makes actions either right or desirable is their utility,
17 Phileb|         acknowledging that what is right for us is the right and
18 Phileb|        what is right for us is the right and inheritance of others.
19 Phileb|           a universal good, truth, right; which is capable of inspiring
20 Phileb|   disagreement in theory about the right relations of the sexes than
21 Phileb| conceptions of harmony, happiness, right, freedom, benevolence, self-love,
22 Phileb|   difference, of opinion about the right and wrong of actions, but
23 Phileb|          are told that actions are right or wrong only in so far
24 Phileb|        from being coextensive with right. Or we may reply that happiness
25 Phileb|        while admitting that in all right action there is an element
26 Phileb|          admitted that utility and right coincide, not in particular
27 Phileb|       taught that when utility and right are in apparent conflict
28 Phileb|        declares certain acts to be right or wrong:—can there be any
29 Phileb|           if performed by another. Right can never be wrong, or wrong
30 Phileb|           never be wrong, or wrong right, that there are no actions
31 Phileb|           we say not only that all right actions tend to happiness,
32 Phileb|           degree in which they are right (and in that case the word ‘
33 Phileb|         and in that case the word ‘right’ is plainer), we weaken
34 Phileb|      pleasure’: their principle of right is of a far higher character—
35 Phileb|    encouraging individuals to make right or wrong for themselves,
36 Phileb|           beginning with ‘Might is right,’ at any rate seeks to deduce
37 Phileb|         highest ideas of truth and right there can never be too much.
38 Phileb|             virtue, knowledge, and right opinion.~Fourthly, the external
39 Phileb|         memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning,
40 Phileb|            if ill decided, and the right determination of them is
41 Phileb|    argument?~SOCRATES: Philebus is right in asking that question
42 Phileb|      identified with her:—Am I not right?~PROTARCHUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
43 Phileb|      Perhaps, Philebus, you may be right in saying so of my ‘mind’;
44 Phileb|             SOCRATES: Does not the right participation in the finite
45 Phileb|           call it.~SOCRATES: Quite right; but now, having distinguished
46 Phileb|      PROTARCHUS: Socrates is quite right, Philebus, and we must submit
47 Phileb|   themselves. And perhaps they are right. But still I should like
48 Phileb|       deserve an answer.~SOCRATES: Right; and you would say the same,
49 Phileb|             I believe that you are right, Socrates; but will you
50 Phileb|          by expectation.~SOCRATES: Right; for in the analysis of
51 Phileb|         consciousness?~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: But do we not
52 Phileb|      experience.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right.~SOCRATES: Let me make a
53 Phileb|          be pertinent.~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: I am always wondering
54 Phileb|             SOCRATES: But were you right? Shall we enquire into the
55 Phileb|         And whether the opinion be right or wrong, makes no difference;
56 Phileb|           should we not speak of a right opinion or right pleasure;
57 Phileb|        speak of a right opinion or right pleasure; and in like manner
58 Phileb|            being erroneous, is not right or rightly opined?~PROTARCHUS:
59 Phileb|         object, shall we call that right or good, or by any honourable
60 Phileb|           which is associated with right opinion and knowledge, and
61 Phileb|          To which he may guess the right answer, saying as if in
62 Phileb|           are.~SOCRATES: If we are right so far, there arises a further
63 Phileb|      opinion and opining; am I not right?~PROTARCHUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
64 Phileb|           is pleasure?~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: But now let us
65 Phileb|         SOCRATES: Then we were not right in saying, just now, that
66 Phileb|           more intensely? Am I not right in saying that they have
67 Phileb|        Well, then, shall we not be right in saying, that if a person
68 Phileb|             Socrates, should we be right in conceiving to be true?~
69 Phileb|   PROTARCHUS: In that case you are right in saying that the loss
70 Phileb|         less frequent, we shall be right in referring to the class
71 Phileb|         measure.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Still
72 Phileb|        most beautiful?~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: And we shall
73 Phileb|    SOCRATES: And we shall be quite right in saying that a little
74 Phileb|       mixed.~PROTARCHUS: Perfectly right.~SOCRATES: There is no need
75 Phileb|            essence.~SOCRATES: Very right; and would you say that
76 Phileb|            good?~PROTARCHUS: Quite right.~SOCRATES: Then, as I said
77 Phileb|          for judgment.~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: Knowledge has
78 Phileb|           severally two.~SOCRATES: Right; but do you understand why
79 Phileb|           enquiry again and set us right; and assuming memory and
80 Phileb|         duly assigned.~PROTARCHUS: Right.~SOCRATES: Have we not found
81 Phileb|          PROTARCHUS: Very good and right.~SOCRATES: If, then, we
82 Phileb|            mind.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right; in that way we shall be
83 Phileb|            them.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right.~SOCRATES: And now, Protarchus,
84 Phileb|      present, or future.~SOCRATES: Right.~PROTARCHUS: But when we