Dialogue

 1 Phileb|      consider the metaphysical conceptions which are presented to us.
 2 Phileb| analogy to purely intellectual conceptions. If we attend to the meaning
 3 Phileb|        supreme law. Both these conceptions are realized chiefly by
 4 Phileb|      passing to the more ideal conceptions of mental pleasure, happiness,
 5 Phileb|  advance upon the metaphysical conceptions of the Republic. And we
 6 Phileb|      merely verbal and trivial conceptions, whether of knowledge or
 7 Phileb|    deny that about the general conceptions of morals there is a practical
 8 Phileb|        thinking about man. The conceptions of harmony, happiness, right,
 9 Phileb|        him, like the religious conceptions of faith or the spirit of
10 Phileb|        in religion, in law, in conceptions of nature, of an ideal good,