Dialogue

 1 Phileb|        is relative to Being or Essence, and from one point of view
 2 Phileb| exceeding knowledge, exceeding essence, which, like Glaucon in
 3 Phileb|       class of generation into essence by the union of the finite
 4 Phileb|  generation is for the sake of essence. Under relatives I class
 5 Phileb|        view to generation; and essence is of the class of good.
 6 Phileb|      the class of good. But if essence is of the class of good,
 7 Phileb|        conception of ousia, or essence, is not an advance upon
 8 Phileb|     then follows the third, an essence compound and generated;
 9 Phileb|       things, and the other is essence.~PROTARCHUS: I readily accept
10 Phileb|        you both generation and essence.~SOCRATES: Very right; and
11 Phileb|  generation is for the sake of essence, or essence for the sake
12 Phileb|        the sake of essence, or essence for the sake of generation?~
13 Phileb|   whether that which is called essence is, properly speaking, for
14 Phileb|     the sake of, some being or essence, and that the whole of generation
15 Phileb|       relative to the whole of essence.~PROTARCHUS: Assuredly.~
16 Phileb|        be for the sake of some essence?~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES: