Dialogue

 1 Phileb|        of the two; fourthly, the cause of the union. Pleasure is
 2 Phileb|    principles or elements is the cause of the union of the finite
 3 Phileb|          Zeus. This is the first cause of which ‘our ancestors
 4 Phileb| abstractions, such as end, good, cause, they appear almost to meet
 5 Phileb|      distinction between a first cause and a final cause. And we
 6 Phileb|          first cause and a final cause. And we should commonly
 7 Phileb|        commonly identify a first cause with God, and the final
 8 Phileb|          with God, and the final cause with the world, which is
 9 Phileb|         the first with the final cause. The cause of the union
10 Phileb|        with the final cause. The cause of the union of the finite
11 Phileb|        akin to the nature of the cause, while pleasure is found
12 Phileb|        finite and to the mind or cause, which were two of the elements
13 Phileb|          an intelligent mind and cause. Of the Heracliteans, whom
14 Phileb|        all circumstances, to the cause of pleasure.~Socrates suggests
15 Phileb|          of the two, and (4) the cause of the union. More may be
16 Phileb|       can be generated without a cause, and therefore there must
17 Phileb|       fourth class, which is the cause of generation; for the cause
18 Phileb|     cause of generation; for the cause or agent is not the same
19 Phileb|        union of the two, and the cause, are found to exist in us.
20 Phileb|           must not the fourth or cause which is the noblest of
21 Phileb|     exist in the world? And this cause is wisdom or mind, the royal
22 Phileb|          class which we term the cause, and pleasure to the infinite
23 Phileb|         there is want which is a cause of pain, but in his mind
24 Phileb|           and is the symbol of a cause for which they are ready
25 Phileb|          For an act which is the cause of happiness to one person
26 Phileb|         to one person may be the cause of unhappiness to another;
27 Phileb|      pride or honour which would cause a quarrel, an estrangement,
28 Phileb|          in him the power of the cause,’ a saying in which theology
29 Phileb|         in which the question of cause and effect and their mutual
30 Phileb|    pleasure and I mind to be the cause of the mixed life; and in
31 Phileb|      might be imagined to be the cause of the good. And I might
32 Phileb|       For in going to war in the cause of mind, who is aspiring
33 Phileb|      that be?~SOCRATES: Find the cause of the third or compound,
34 Phileb|         to have a fifth class or cause of resolution as well as
35 Phileb|          resolution as well as a cause of composition?~SOCRATES:
36 Phileb|        come into being through a cause?~PROTARCHUS: Yes, certainly;
37 Phileb|         be anything which has no cause?~SOCRATES: And is not the
38 Phileb|        the agent the same as the cause in all except name; the
39 Phileb|          name; the agent and the cause may be rightly called one?~
40 Phileb|           SOCRATES: The agent or cause always naturally leads,
41 Phileb|    Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then the cause and what is subordinate
42 Phileb|     SOCRATES: And the creator or cause of them has been satisfactorily
43 Phileb|         wrong in speaking of the cause of mixture and generation
44 Phileb|  composition of the two, and the cause, the fourth, which enters
45 Phileb|           as well as a presiding cause of no mean power, which
46 Phileb|          in him the power of the cause? And other gods have other
47 Phileb|         four which we called the cause of all; and I think that
48 Phileb|        that mind was akin to the cause and of this family; and (
49 Phileb|        motions going up and down cause pleasures and pains?~PROTARCHUS:
50 Phileb|       and which is the principal cause why such a state is universally
51 Phileb|         difficulty in seeing the cause which renders any mixture
52 Phileb|         may regard as the single cause of the mixture, and the