Dialogue

 1 Intro|            and of the connexion of ideas, was making truth and falsehood
 2 Intro|            must first submit their ideas to criticism and revision.
 3 Intro|           of Being. The friends of ideas (Soph.) are alluded to by
 4 Intro|      delineation of the friends of ideas, who defend themselves from
 5 Intro|         names, or several isolated ideas or classes incapable of
 6 Intro|            a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not
 7 Intro|       sought for in the history of ideas, and the answer is only
 8 Intro|          complete mastery over the ideas of his predecessors—they
 9 Intro|         reflection of this, having ideas of Being, Sameness, and
10 Intro|          Lastly, there are certain ideas, such as ‘beginning,’ ‘becoming,’ ‘
11 Intro|          saw that the isolation of ideas or classes is the annihilation
12 Intro|           they are the ‘friends of ideas,’ who carry on the polemic
13 Intro|         the analysis of the simple ideas of Unity or Being. In the
14 Intro|          we turn to the friends of ideas: to them we say, ‘You distinguish
15 Intro|           a plurality of immutable ideas—all alike have the ground
16 Intro|   opposites, the conception of the ideas as causes, and the relation
17 Intro|           explain the connexion of ideas, how justify the passing
18 Intro| reconciliation of these elementary ideas thought was impossible.
19 Intro|           principle, and that some ideas combine with others, but
20 Intro|             on the ‘friends of the ideas’ as well as on the pre-Socratic
21 Intro|         must lead us onward to the ideas or universals which are
22 Intro|         human mind towards certain ideas and forms of thought. And
23 Intro|        succession in time of human ideas is also the eternal ‘now’;
24 Intro|         sense, (1) passing through ideas of quality, quantity, measure,
25 Intro|       found to include the leading ideas of the sciences and to arrange
26 Intro|         attraction or repulsion of ideas of which the physical phenomenon
27 Intro|        incapable of distinguishing ideas from facts. And certainly
28 Intro|          gathering up the world in ideas, we feel after all that
29 Intro|          attention may be drawn to ideas which the moment we analyze
30 Intro|            to explain how opposite ideas can coexist in our own minds;
31 Intro|         one mind in which the true ideas of all ages and countries
32 Intro|         also the thinnest of human ideas, or, in the language of
33 Intro|           the dominion of abstract ideas. We acknowledge his originality,
34 Intro|            other ways in which our ideas may be connected. The triplets
35 Intro|          to have subjected his own ideas to the process of analysis
36 Intro|          historical criterion: the ideas of men have a succession
37 Intro|          between the succession of ideas in history and the natural
38 Intro|            regular succession? The ideas of Being, change, number,
39 Intro|       Christ,—the want of abstract ideas. Nor must we forget the
40 Intro|            of mediate or reflected ideas? The more we analyze them
41 Intro|            the proposition and our ideas of reciprocity, cause and
42 Intro|     defined the differences in our ideas of opposition, or development,
43 Intro|           in which a succession of ideas presented themselves to
44 Intro|           viewed as the complex of ideas, or the difference between
45 Intro|             In the Hegelian system ideas supersede persons. The world
46 Intro|       correctly as a succession of ideas. Any comprehensive view
47 Intro|           justified in saying that ideas are the causes of the great
48 Intro|         age in which he lives. His ideas are inseparable from himself,
49 Intro|        race? Do not persons become ideas, and is there any distinction
50 Intro|    difficulty in understanding how ideas can be causes, which to
51 Intro|            much for the kingdom of ideas. Whatever may be thought
52 Intro|         was the servant of his own ideas and not the master of them.
53 Intro|         writers put together. Many ideas of development, evolution,
54  Soph|       intelligible and incorporeal ideas; the bodies of the materialists,
55  Soph|           make being to consist in ideas, there will be less difficulty,
56  Soph|           now go to the friends of ideas; of their opinions, too,
57  Soph|             not in relation to all ideas, lest the multitude of them
58  Soph|        respecting the communion of ideas], and then he may proceed
59  Soph|        will probably say that some ideas partake of not-being, and
60  Soph|         before we were speaking of ideas and letters; for that is
61  Soph|        there was some confusion of ideas, which prevented them from