Dialogue

 1 Intro|          measure of all arts and sciences, to which the art of discourse
 2 Intro|   finding the true king. (6) The sciences which are most akin to the
 3 Intro|        akin to the royal are the sciences of the general, the judge,
 4 Intro|         division of the arts and sciences into theoretical and practical—
 5 Intro|  arithmetic and the mathematical sciences are examples of the former,
 6 Intro|      others to investigate those sciences in a manner contrary to
 7 Intro|           Now there are inferior sciences, such as music and others;
 8 Intro|         or hierarchy of ideas or sciences has already been floating
 9 Intro|          Philebus, a division of sciences into practical and speculative,
10 Intro|          idea of master-arts, or sciences which control inferior ones.
11 Intro|          of view, the science of sciences, which holds sway over the
12 Intro|       principle in which all the sciences are contained. Other forms
13 Intro|       and the arrangement of the sciences supply connecting links
14 State|          Yes.~STRANGER: Then the sciences must be divided as before?~
15 State|     STRANGER: Then let us divide sciences in general into those which
16 State|       STRANGER: Are not all such sciences, no less than arithmetic
17 State|        among the greatest of all sciences and most difficult to acquire,
18 State|  certainly be the easiest of all sciences; there could not be found
19 State| procedure, Socrates, about these sciences and about generalship, and
20 State|        of which, above all other sciences, they believe themselves
21 State|    STRANGER: And ought the other sciences to be superior to this,
22 State|          The review of all these sciences shows that none of them