Dialogue

 1 Phileb|            illustrated by sense, the greatest light appeared to be thrown
 2 Phileb|         please, that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of sciences:—
 3 Phileb|             say that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of arts;
 4 Phileb|    maintaining that dialectic is the greatest or usefullest, but only
 5 Phileb|              often unseemly, and the greatest pleasures are put out of
 6 Phileb|               The simplicity of the ‘greatest happiness’ principle has
 7 Phileb|             system of ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with
 8 Phileb|      inconsistent with religion, the greatest happiness principle is in
 9 Phileb|              familiar phrase of the ‘greatest happiness principle,’ it
10 Phileb|             the principle not of the greatest, but of the highest pleasure,
11 Phileb| acknowledging the benefits which the greatest happiness principle has
12 Phileb|              he has not promoted the greatest happiness of the greatest
13 Phileb|            greatest happiness of the greatest number, but because he has
14 Phileb|             takes no cognizance. The greatest happiness principle strengthens
15 Phileb|       suffering for others. Upon the greatest happiness principle it is
16 Phileb|             which may often make the greatest difference in the consequences,
17 Phileb|             in their own case by the greatest benefactors of mankind?’~
18 Phileb|        readily and cheerfully from a greatest happiness principle. But
19 Phileb|               They do not reject the greatest happiness principle, but
20 Phileb|            when we approach him. The greatest happiness of the greatest
21 Phileb|            greatest happiness of the greatest number was a great original
22 Phileb|              can I contribute to the greatest happiness of others?’ is
23 Phileb|            God. And the ideal of the greatest happiness of mankind, especially
24 Phileb|        resolve this feeling into the greatest happiness principle takes
25 Phileb|            stronger motives than the greatest happiness of the greatest
26 Phileb|            greatest happiness of the greatest number, which is the thesis
27 Phileb|             of goods?’ Admitting the greatest happiness principle to be
28 Phileb|           likeness of the other. The greatest happiness principle, which
29 Phileb|           According to this view the greatest good of men is obedience
30 Phileb|        obedience to the law, and the greatest order is also the greatest
31 Phileb|           greatest order is also the greatest freedom; ‘Act so that thy
32 Phileb|          latter would seem to be the greatest impossibility of all, for
33 Phileb|              in the enjoyment of the greatest pleasures?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly
34 Phileb|       throughout your life enjoy the greatest pleasures?~PROTARCHUS: I
35 Phileb|           words about matters of the greatest moment.~PROTARCHUS: I believe
36 Phileb|          that you should look at the greatest instances.~SOCRATES: Then
37 Phileb|             obvious instances of the greatest pleasures, as we have often
38 Phileb|              not those pleasures the greatest of which mankind have the
39 Phileb|            of which mankind have the greatest desires?~PROTARCHUS: True.~
40 Phileb|         person would wish to see the greatest pleasures he ought to go
41 Phileb|            if this be true, then the greatest pleasures and pains will
42 Phileb|              see what makes them the greatest?~PROTARCHUS: To be sure
43 Phileb|              declares them to be the greatest; and he reckons him who
44 Phileb|            And yet surely by far the greatest number err about the goods
45 Phileb|              Is that purest which is greatest or most in quantity, or
46 Phileb|            purest white, and not the greatest or largest in quantity,
47 Phileb|            never asked which was the greatest or best or usefullest of
48 Phileb|      clearness and accuracy, and the greatest amount of truth, however
49 Phileb|              Do you wish to have the greatest and most vehement pleasures
50 Phileb|               which appear to be the greatest, perjury is excused by the
51 Phileb|            pleasures, perhaps in the greatest of pleasures, the ridiculous