Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          in the first efforts of mankind to understand the working
 2 Phileb|         consequences of actions. Mankind were said by him to act
 3 Phileb|   reasons why not only Plato but mankind in general have been unwilling
 4 Phileb|         tend to the happiness of mankind; we acknowledge that a large
 5 Phileb|        only; we say further that mankind are not too mindful, but
 6 Phileb|     effect upon the happiness of mankind.~There is a theory which
 7 Phileb|         promote the happiness of mankind, or, in other words, to
 8 Phileb|       family, of our country, of mankind. The desire of this, and
 9 Phileb|       notion of the happiness of mankind at large. But in this composite
10 Phileb|          friends, if not for all mankind? If, as is natural, we begin
11 Phileb|        all the particularisms of mankind; which acknowledges a universal
12 Phileb|          the scene, we feel that mankind has been the better for
13 Phileb|     principle has conferred upon mankind, the time appears to have
14 Phileb|         promote the happiness of mankind,’ or ‘Act so that the rule
15 Phileb|        well as of the meanest of mankind?’ If we say ‘Not pleasure,
16 Phileb|         tend to the happiness of mankind imposed upon us with the
17 Phileb|        increase the happiness of mankind may have the opposite effect
18 Phileb|         tend to the happiness of mankind which may not under other
19 Phileb|          greatest benefactors of mankind?’~The admissions that pleasures
20 Phileb|         intellectual progress of mankind.~But because the utilitarian
21 Phileb|        the greatest happiness of mankind, especially if believed
22 Phileb|      conduce to the happiness of mankind, though true enough, seems
23 Phileb|         promote the happiness of mankind, but for the sake of the
24 Phileb| discipline to be for the good of mankind. It is better for him to
25 Phileb|       the importance attached by mankind to theological terms in
26 Phileb|       about the future, and that mankind are filled with hopes in
27 Phileb|  pleasures the greatest of which mankind have the greatest desires?~
28 Phileb|       them to be the happiest of mankind.~PROTARCHUS: That, Socrates,
29 Phileb|        the one which the mass of mankind are always claiming, and
30 Phileb|        divided, like the rest of mankind, into two classes—one having
31 Phileb|       advantage in usefulness to mankind, he will not quarrel with