Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     mind (compare Aristot. Nic. Ethics). The first is an idea only,
 2 Phileb|      says, for the universal in Ethics (Metaph.), he took the most
 3 Phileb|         connecting link between Ethics and Politics, and under
 4 Phileb|         eudaemonistic system of ethics, with a greatest happiness
 5 Phileb|  something to our conception of Ethics; no one of them is the whole
 6 Phileb|         days of Eudoxus (Arist. Ethics) and Epicurus to our own,
 7 Phileb|        lie at the foundation of ethics. Any one who adds a general
 8 Phileb|     deemed to be as backward in ethics as they necessarily were
 9 Phileb|     sphere of the metaphysic of ethics. But these two uncertainties
10 Phileb| required in first principles of ethics are, (1) that they should
11 Phileb|        God. The difficulties of ethics disappear when we do not
12 Phileb|       utterly miserable (Arist. Ethics), or place a bad man in
13 Phileb|       we turn to the history of ethics, we shall find that our
14 Phileb|       distinguish the origin of ethics from the principles of them—
15 Phileb|    transcendental principles of ethics, in being too abstract.