Dialogue

 1 Phileb|   analyzed, to the good. (1) The question is asked, whether pleasure
 2 Phileb|      means to discuss the common question—how a sensible object can
 3 Phileb|          requested to answer the question himself. That he will, if
 4 Phileb|         a very serious and awful question, which may be prefaced by
 5 Phileb|   restoration? That is a further question, and admitting, as we must,
 6 Phileb|      pain and pleasure.) Another question is raised: May not pleasures,
 7 Phileb|    immoderate? We may answer the question by an illustration: Purity
 8 Phileb|     impure. But there is another question:—Pleasure is affirmed by
 9 Phileb|         first recapitulating the question at issue.~Philebus affirmed
10 Phileb|          the controversy another question was asked: ‘Do pleasures
11 Phileb|     moderns have added a further question:— ‘Whose pleasure? The pleasure
12 Phileb|         too far removed from the question which we are now pursuing.~
13 Phileb|        can give no answer to the question, ‘What is that common quality
14 Phileb|         a truism.~Let us ask the question in another form. What is
15 Phileb|         are the parts. Still the question recurs, ‘In what does the
16 Phileb|   utility than on any other. The question Will such and such an action
17 Phileb|           is another form of the question which will be more attractive
18 Phileb| philosophy?’ is analogous to the question asked in the Philebus, ‘
19 Phileb|       gradations of thought. The question of pleasure and the relation
20 Phileb|       simple manner in which the question of cause and effect and
21 Phileb|          Protarchus, have my own question asked of me by you?~PROTARCHUS:
22 Phileb|         by you?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Ask me whether
23 Phileb|          is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.~PROTARCHUS:
24 Phileb|         PHILEBUS: Yes, that is a question which Protarchus and I have
25 Phileb|     arrived at the answer to the question which, as you say, you have
26 Phileb|        SOCRATES: And the precise question to which the previous discussion
27 Phileb|           That is a very serious question, Philebus, to which Socrates
28 Phileb|     allowed to go home until the question was settled; and you agreed,
29 Phileb|       now consider well; for the question to which I invite your attention
30 Phileb|         And now what is the next question, and how came we hither?
31 Phileb|       will allow me to ask you a question before you answer?~PHILEBUS:
32 Phileb|       must beg you to answer the question.~PROTARCHUS: Socrates is
33 Phileb|      solemnity, when I asked the question to what class mind and knowledge
34 Phileb|          Protarchus, by asking a question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
35 Phileb|       question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Whether all this
36 Phileb|      fire?~PROTARCHUS: That is a question which does not deserve an
37 Phileb|       That again, Socrates, is a question which does not deserve to
38 Phileb|           Well, tell me, is this question worth asking?~PROTARCHUS:
39 Phileb|         asking?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: May our body
40 Phileb|     heavens, Socrates, that is a question which is not easily answered;
41 Phileb|        the occasion of raising a question?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
42 Phileb|       question?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Whether we ought
43 Phileb|          always wondering at the question which has now been raised.~
44 Phileb|      into more precise terms the question which has arisen about pleasure
45 Phileb|     PROTARCHUS: Yes; that is the question.~SOCRATES: You mean that
46 Phileb|     under the tree?’ This is the question which he may be supposed
47 Phileb|           there arises a further question.~PROTARCHUS: What is it?~
48 Phileb|      SOCRATES: Answer me another question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
49 Phileb|       question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: A just and pious
50 Phileb|         Socrates?~SOCRATES: Your question, Protarchus, does not help
51 Phileb|          Socrates, do we ask the question at all? I do not see the
52 Phileb|       what do you say of another question:—have we not heard that
53 Phileb|          they mean, by putting a question.~PROTARCHUS: Ask, and I
54 Phileb|       that you would repeat your question.~SOCRATES: I mean, O my
55 Phileb|      cases I should ask the same question.~PROTARCHUS: Why do you
56 Phileb|     PROTARCHUS: That is the very question which the argument is asking.~
57 Phileb|        how would you decide this question, Protarchus?~PROTARCHUS:
58 Phileb|      about wisdom I ask the same question; can you conceive that any
59 Phileb|      PROTARCHUS: Here is another question which may be easily answered;