Dialogue

 1 Phileb|  indefinite, as relative, as a generation, and in all these points
 2 Phileb|       described as becoming or generation. This is relative to Being
 3 Phileb|     but only as accompanied by generation (Nic. Eth.).~4. Plato attempts
 4 Phileb|        enter into the world of generation? How, as units, can they
 5 Phileb|      there is a third class of generation into essence by the union
 6 Phileb|   class, which is the cause of generation; for the cause or agent
 7 Phileb| ingenious philosophers to be a generation; they say that there are
 8 Phileb|      sake of the absolute; and generation is for the sake of essence.
 9 Phileb|     things done with a view to generation; and essence is of the class
10 Phileb|       is of the class of good, generation must be of some other class;
11 Phileb|      affirm that pleasure is a generation, would laugh at the notion
12 Phileb|        pleasure is produced by generation, which is only the alternative
13 Phileb|        want of taste; and this generation which has reaped the benefit
14 Phileb|     may degenerate in the next generation. He believes that to be
15 Phileb|      Bentham, which leavened a generation and has left its mark on
16 Phileb|     this criticism of the next generation, though the founders of
17 Phileb|        and incapable either of generation or of destruction, but retaining
18 Phileb|       infinity of the world of generation, or as still entire and
19 Phileb|        is subordinate to it in generation are not the same, but different?~
20 Phileb|       the cause of mixture and generation as the fourth.~PROTARCHUS:
21 Phileb|    dissolution of nature and a generation of pain.~PROTARCHUS: That
22 Phileb|   considered in discussing the generation and whole complexion of
23 Phileb|      that pleasure is always a generation, and has no true being?
24 Phileb|     they?~SOCRATES: One is the generation of all things, and the other
25 Phileb|   readily accept from you both generation and essence.~SOCRATES: Very
26 Phileb|         and would you say that generation is for the sake of essence,
27 Phileb|        essence for the sake of generation?~PROTARCHUS: You want to
28 Phileb|      speaking, for the sake of generation?~SOCRATES: Yes.~PROTARCHUS:
29 Phileb|     given to us with a view to generation, and that each generation
30 Phileb|      generation, and that each generation is relative to, or for the
31 Phileb| essence, and that the whole of generation is relative to the whole
32 Phileb|         Then pleasure, being a generation, must surely be for the
33 Phileb|         Then pleasure, being a generation, will be rightly placed
34 Phileb|        out that pleasure was a generation only, and had no true being
35 Phileb|   laugh also at those who make generation their highest end.~PROTARCHUS:
36 Phileb|      defect by some process of generation are delighted at the process
37 Phileb| admitted to be the opposite of generation?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
38 Phileb|     chooses thus, would choose generation and destruction rather than
39 Phileb|  Orpheus says,~‘With the sixth generation cease the glory of my song.’~