Dialogue

 1 Intro|          not merely one Being or Good having different names,
 2 Intro|         all turn out to be ‘very good sort of people when we know
 3 Intro|          and all of them part on good terms with Socrates. But
 4 Intro|         together against the few good and wise men, and devoid
 5 Intro|     narrowed and enlarged; and a good or bad sense will subsist
 6 Intro|          Prodicus, Hippias, were good and honourable men. The
 7 Intro|   Nominalists, asserting the One Good under many names to be the
 8 Intro|      earth that he may visit the good and evil among men, and
 9 Intro|          we say an angler? ‘Very good.’~In the first place, the
10 Intro|         and another in which the good is separated from the bad.
11 Intro|          same thing, e.g. white, good, tall, to man; out of which
12 Intro|          anything; they say that good is good, and man is man;
13 Intro|  anything; they say that good is good, and man is man; and that
14 Intro|        to the idea of beauty and good. Mind is in motion as well
15 Intro|      knowledge, like the idea of good in the Sixth Book of the
16 Intro|          conceptions of just and good, as well as to great and
17 Intro|       small. Though the just and good in particular instances
18 Intro|  instances may vary, the IDEA of good is eternal and unchangeable.
19 Intro|    unchangeable. And the IDEA of good is the source of knowledge
20 Intro|       rational is actual.’ But a good man will not readily acquiesce
21 Intro|     according to law whether for good or evil. But when he sees
22 Intro|      single man can do any great good or any great harm. Even
23  Soph|          and just, and visit the good and evil among men. And
24  Soph|      disputatious sort—he is too good for that. And, in my opinion,
25  Soph|          with me.~STRANGER: Very good; you can decide about that
26  Soph|         the greater?~THEAETETUS: Good.~STRANGER: What is there
27  Soph|        we want.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Let us begin
28  Soph|   creative art.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Next follows
29  Soph|       violence.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: But the art of
30  Soph|     pugnacious.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: That part of
31  Soph| discriminating.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Think whether
32  Soph|    purification was to leave the good and to cast out whatever
33  Soph|          trouble and does little good—~THEAETETUS: There they
34  Soph|        produces the most lasting good effect on the person who
35  Soph|           my friend, and about a good many other things. In a
36  Soph|         with you.~STRANGER: Very good; and now say, do we venture
37  Soph|          truth.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Then now, on
38  Soph|         to offer.~STRANGER: Very good; perhaps we, as well as
39  Soph|          we are saying something good?~THEAETETUS: I certainly
40  Soph|      discredit.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Let us enquire,
41  Soph|        him as a man, but also as good, and having numberless other
42  Soph|         in denying that a man is good; for man, they insist, is
43  Soph|          they insist, is man and good is good. I dare say that
44  Soph|       insist, is man and good is good. I dare say that you have
45  Soph|          of them.~STRANGER: Very good, and first let us assume
46  Soph|       escape until we have had a good look at him.~THEAETETUS:
47  Soph|         at him.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: Since, then,
48  Soph|          a little ought to be of good cheer, for what would he
49  Soph|        spirits.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: You may remember
50  Soph|       imitator?~THEAETETUS: Very good.~STRANGER: And shall we