Dialogue

 1 Phileb| philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great advances have
 2 Phileb|              when he was absorbed in abstract ideas, we can hardly be
 3 Phileb|           tell the relation in which abstract ideas stand to one another,
 4 Phileb|             from the concrete to the abstract conception of the Ideas
 5 Phileb|          mode of regarding them; the abstract idea of the one is compared
 6 Phileb|           unchangeable, and then the abstract idea of pleasure will be
 7 Phileb|            element of both. The most abstract kinds of knowledge are inseparable
 8 Phileb|             may also become a purely abstract science, when separated
 9 Phileb|         numbers, and is due to their abstract nature;—although we admit
10 Phileb|              of goods, from the more abstract to the less abstract; from
11 Phileb|            more abstract to the less abstract; from the subjective to
12 Phileb|       conception of good against the abstract practical good of the Cynics,
13 Phileb|           good of the Cynics, or the abstract intellectual good of the
14 Phileb|             process of creating; the abstract universals of which they
15 Phileb|             application of number to abstract unities (e.g.‘man,’ ‘good’)
16 Phileb|            or to their nature in the abstract—as they are regarded popularly
17 Phileb|             feel the advantage of an abstract principle wide enough and
18 Phileb|             any quality which we can abstract from these’—what then? After
19 Phileb|              of ethics, in being too abstract. For there is the same difficulty
20 Phileb|              higher point of view of abstract ideas: or compare the simple