Dialogue

 1 Phileb|        both of politics and of morals. It has not satisfied their
 2 Phileb|     them by other standards of morals. For long ago they have
 3 Phileb| required on our part; we learn morals, as we learn to talk, instinctively,
 4 Phileb|        knows the essentials of morals: ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ ‘
 5 Phileb|     the roots or ‘origines’ of morals, but the latest efforts
 6 Phileb|        over from one theory of morals to the opposite. For allowing
 7 Phileb|     state of uncertainty about morals. While other branches of
 8 Phileb|     the general conceptions of morals there is a practical agreement.
 9 Phileb|       about the uncertainty of morals? Chiefly to this,—that philosophers
10 Phileb|     casuistical uncertainty of morals from the practical certainty.
11 Phileb|     most general principles of morals may be presented to us are
12 Phileb|        minds an interest about morals in general, to strengthen
13 Phileb|   pleasure and use in reducing morals, as in reducing physics,
14 Phileb|      be the first principle of morals which is hardly regarded
15 Phileb|      be, the only principle of morals.~And this brings us to speak
16 Phileb|   connected with one theory of morals, the virtues of temperance
17 Phileb|      are a sufficient basis of morals. In asserting liberty of
18 Phileb|     there remain many rules of morals which are better explained
19 Phileb|     utility to be the basis of morals. But the utilitarian will
20 Phileb|     foundation of that part of morals which relates to the consequences
21 Phileb|       subjective principles of morals,—sympathy, benevolence,
22 Phileb|        political principles of morals—freedom, equality, rights
23 Phileb|        religious principles of morals:—the will of God revealed
24 Phileb| happiness as the foundation of morals, the reference of human