Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     doctrine stood to the Eleatic Being or the Megarian good, or
 2 Phileb|        unity, such as the Eleatic Being, can be broken up into a
 3 Phileb|  intensified the nature of one or Being, by the thoughts of successive
 4 Phileb|          could no longer imagine ‘Being’ as in a state of change
 5 Phileb| mysterious to him; but instead of being illustrated by sense, the
 6 Phileb|         and which in the scale of being is farthest removed from
 7 Phileb|          body are more capable of being defined than any other pleasures.
 8 Phileb|   generation. This is relative to Being or Essence, and from one
 9 Phileb|         contrast with the Eleatic Being; from another, as the transient
10 Phileb|          use his own language, of being a ‘tyro in dialectics,’
11 Phileb|         scarcely perceived by us, being almost done away with by
12 Phileb|        then have been regarded as being the expression of ideas.
13 Phileb|           of opinions is far from being impossible. Plato’s omission
14 Phileb|         latter is more capable of being reduced to measure.~The
15 Phileb|         is the science of eternal Being, apprehended by the purest
16 Phileb|       absolute and unapproachable being. But this being is manifested
17 Phileb|    unapproachable being. But this being is manifested in symmetry
18 Phileb|        find a truth beyond either Being or number; setting up his
19 Phileb|        and false? In the sense of being real, both must be admitted
20 Phileb|      dialectic, or the science of being, which will forget and disown
21 Phileb|    pleasures partake of truth and Being?’ To these ancient speculations
22 Phileb|         degree, and is capable of being greatly fostered and strengthened.
23 Phileb|         strengthened. So far from being inconsistent with religion,
24 Phileb|         But this is very far from being coextensive with right.
25 Phileb|           we can form of a divine being is that of a despot acting
26 Phileb|          law of every intelligent being.’ This view is noble and
27 Phileb|          principles of ethics, in being too abstract. For there
28 Phileb|           determined; the Eleatic Being and the Heraclitean Flux
29 Phileb|        are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that
30 Phileb|        how each individual unity, being always the same, and incapable
31 Phileb|           does he spare; no human being who has ears is safe from
32 Phileb|        something ridiculous in my being unable to answer, and therefore
33 Phileb|        never any end of them, and being endless they must also be
34 Phileb|           any offspring of these, being a birth into true being,
35 Phileb|           being a birth into true being, effected by the measure
36 Phileb|       everything which comes into being, of necessity come into
37 Phileb|            of necessity come into being through a cause?~PROTARCHUS:
38 Phileb|         them to be, the pleasures being unalloyed with pain and
39 Phileb|   sometimes not to be desired, as being not in themselves good,
40 Phileb|         principle in every living being have their origin in the
41 Phileb|        SOCRATES: I am speaking of being emptied and replenished,
42 Phileb|           one time a sure hope of being filled, and at other times
43 Phileb|          empty and has no hope of being filled, there will be the
44 Phileb|         not say that the opinion, being erroneous, is not right
45 Phileb|         we not say that the good, being friends of the gods, have
46 Phileb|         they are two only—the one being a state of pain, which is
47 Phileb|       generation, and has no true being? Do not certain ingenious
48 Phileb|          or for the sake of, some being or essence, and that the
49 Phileb|          SOCRATES: Then pleasure, being a generation, must surely
50 Phileb|          SOCRATES: Then pleasure, being a generation, will be rightly
51 Phileb|  generation only, and had no true being at all; for he is clearly
52 Phileb|         at the notion of pleasure being a good.~PROTARCHUS: Assuredly.~
53 Phileb|          further absurdity in our being compelled to say that he
54 Phileb|    knowledge which has to do with being and reality, and sameness
55 Phileb|      labouring, not after eternal being, but about things which
56 Phileb|         the contemplation of true being?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
57 Phileb|    respect?~SOCRATES: In that the being who possesses good always
58 Phileb|       mixture, and the mixture as being good by reason of the infusion
59 Phileb|        defined by us as painless, being the pure pleasures of the