The Apology
     Part
   1 Intro|             knows whether death is a good or an evil; and he is certain
   2 Intro|         could therefore have done no good. Twice in public matters
   3 Intro|             been spent in doing them good, should at least have the
   4 Intro|          which Anytus proposes, is a good or an evil? And he is certain
   5 Intro|            to which he is going is a good and not an evil. For either
   6 Intro|       Nothing evil can happen to the good man either in life or death,
   7 Intro|            never meant to do him any good.~He has a last request to
   8 Intro|            regarded these answers as good enough for his accuser,
   9 Intro|            which he goes about doing good only in vindication of the
  10 Intro|            no evil can happen to the good man either in life or death.
  11 Text |              which may or may not be good; but think only of the truth
  12 Text |              if to succeed be for my good and yours, or likely to
  13 Text |        anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he
  14 Text |             I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same
  15 Text |             poets;—because they were good workmen they thought that
  16 Text |              headed by Meletus, that good man and true lover of his
  17 Text |               The laws.~But that, my good sir, is not my meaning.
  18 Text |            the goddess Here, that is good news! There are plenty of
  19 Text |          them harm and all the world good? Is not the exact opposite
  20 Text |           One man is able to do them good, or at least not many;—the
  21 Text |            that is to say, does them good, and others who have to
  22 Text |         among bad citizens, or among good ones? Answer, friend, I
  23 Text |          easily answered. Do not the good do their neighbours good,
  24 Text |             good do their neighbours good, and the bad do them evil?~
  25 Text |            live with him? Answer, my good friend, the law requires
  26 Text |          have just admitted that the good do their neighbours good,
  27 Text |             good do their neighbours good, and the evil do them evil.
  28 Text |           has been the death of many good men, and will probably be
  29 Text |           are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to
  30 Text |           wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad. Whereas,
  31 Text |            who fell at Troy were not good for much, and the son of
  32 Text |              may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of
  33 Text |             fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.
  34 Text |              believe that no greater good has ever happened in the
  35 Text |          comes money and every other good of man, public as well as
  36 Text |              that to hear me will be good for you, and therefore I
  37 Text |       perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
  38 Text |          life, supposing that like a good man I had always maintained
  39 Text |             out to be a bad man or a good one, neither result can
  40 Text |             not according to his own good pleasure; and we ought not
  41 Text |           not go where I could do no good to you or to myself; but
  42 Text |              I could do the greatest good privately to every one of
  43 Text |          such an one? Doubtless some good thing, O men of Athens,
  44 Text |              has his reward; and the good should be of a kind suitable
  45 Text |              know whether death is a good or an evil, why should I
  46 Text |              others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined
  47 Text |              has happened to me is a good, and that those of us who
  48 Text |             going to evil and not to good.~Let us reflect in another
  49 Text |              to hope that death is a good; for one of two things—either
  50 Text |             all the dead abide, what good, O my friends and judges,
  51 Text |           Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know
  52 Text |              no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after
  53 Text |            did not mean to do me any good; and for this I may gently


Charmides
     Part
  54 PreS |              show that he has made a good use of his Dictionary and
  55 PreS |          expect every man to have ‘a good coat of his own,’ and not
  56 Intro|             Homer: for temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer
  57 Intro|        declared that ‘modesty is not good for a needy man.’ (3) Once
  58 Intro|            and ‘work’ an exclusively good sense: Temperance is doing
  59 Intro|           own business;—(4) is doing good.~Still an element of knowledge
  60 Intro|              still there would be no good in this; and the knowledge
  61 Intro|              a kind which will do us good; for temperance is a good.
  62 Intro|            good; for temperance is a good. But this universal knowledge
  63 Intro|            tend to our happiness and good: the only kind of knowledge
  64 Intro|        happiness is the knowledge of good and evil. To this Critias
  65 Intro|              science or knowledge of good and evil, and all the other
  66 Intro|           conception of a science of good and evil also first occurs
  67 Intro|      knowledge, and at last to unite good and truth in a single science.
  68 Intro|            other writings identifies good and knowledge, here opposes
  69 Intro|           own business, the doing of good actions, the dialogue passes
  70 Intro|               or of the knowledge of good and evil. The dialogue represents
  71 Intro|             matters, but only lead a good life;’ and yet in either
  72 Text |          Potidaea, and having been a good while away, I thought that
  73 Text |              this.~He is as fair and good within, as he is without,
  74 Text |              he said, laughing.~Very good, I said; and are you quite
  75 Text |              whole is well.’ For all good and evil, whether in the
  76 Text |         ought to excel others in all good qualities; for if I am not
  77 Text |           the class of the noble and good?~Yes.~But which is best
  78 Text |            quickness and agility are good; slowness, and inactivity,
  79 Text |       certainly.~And is temperance a good?~Yes.~Then, in reference
  80 Text |       temperance, if temperance is a good?~True, he said.~And which,
  81 Text |      temperate is supposed to be the good. And of two things, one
  82 Text |            is admitted by us to be a good and noble thing, and the
  83 Text |             have been shown to be as good as the quiet.~I think, he
  84 Text |            the same as modesty.~Very good, I said; and did you not
  85 Text |           And the temperate are also good?~Yes.~And can that be good
  86 Text |           good?~Yes.~And can that be good which does not make men
  87 Text |              which does not make men good?~Certainly not.~And you
  88 Text |             not only noble, but also good?~That is my opinion.~Well,
  89 Text |             he says,~‘Modesty is not good for a needy man’?~Yes, he
  90 Text |           that modesty is and is not good?~Clearly.~But temperance,
  91 Text |              presence makes men only good, and not bad, is always
  92 Text |               and not bad, is always good?~That appears to me to be
  93 Text |           modesty—if temperance is a good, and if modesty is as much
  94 Text |              is as much an evil as a good?~All that, Socrates, appears
  95 Text |          accept the definition.~Very good, I said; and now let me
  96 Text |           and that which is his own, good; and that the makings (Greek)
  97 Text |           the makings (Greek) of the good you would call doings (Greek),
  98 Text |              which you would use, of good actions, is temperance?~
  99 Text |           does evil, but he who does good, is temperate?~Yes, he said;
 100 Text |            he who does evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that
 101 Text |             he is temperate who does good, and not evil: for temperance
 102 Text |             words to be the doing of good actions.~And you may be
 103 Text |           who cures a patient may do good to himself and good to another
 104 Text |           may do good to himself and good to another also?~I think
 105 Text |            said, he may sometimes do good or harm, and not know what
 106 Text |             doing, and yet, in doing good, as you say, he has done
 107 Text |              as would seem, in doing good, he may act wisely or temperately,
 108 Text |             view, I ask of you, what good work, worthy of the name
 109 Text |          things as they truly are, a good common to all mankind?~Yes,
 110 Text |             wish which wishes for no good, but only for itself and
 111 Text |         would or would not do us any good; for I have an impression
 112 Text |        temperance is a benefit and a good. And therefore, O son of
 113 Text |            as this, would do us much good. For we were wrong, I think,
 114 Text |       certainly cannot make out what good this sort of thing does
 115 Text |          because the workmen will be good and true. Aye, and if you
 116 Text |     knowledge with which he discerns good and evil.~Monster! I said;
 117 Text |            one science only, that of good and evil. For, let me ask
 118 Text |          done, if the science of the good be wanting.~True.~But that
 119 Text |              or of ignorance, but of good and evil: and if this be
 120 Text |            particular science of the good under her control, and in
 121 Text |            wisdom give advantage, my good friend; for that again we
 122 Text |            us useless, if I had been good for anything at an enquiry.
 123 Text |             should have no profit or good in life from your wisdom
 124 Text |         believe to be really a great good; and happy are you, Charmides,
 125 Text |              I have had enough.~Very good, Charmides, said Critias;


Cratylus
     Part
 126 Intro|      Republic of absolute beauty and good; but he never supposed that
 127 Intro|           and the altered name is as good as the original one.~You
 128 Intro|            that there are a few very good men in the world, and a
 129 Intro|          many very bad; and the very good are the wise, and the very
 130 Intro|          distinction between bad and good men. But then, the only
 131 Intro|         chief in war), or Eupolemus (good warrior); but the two words
 132 Intro|            not literally golden, but good; and they are called demons,
 133 Intro|          Attic was used for daimones—good men are well said to become
 134 Intro|            his knowing (eidenai) all good things. Men in general are
 135 Intro|              phaeos istor. This is a good notion; and, to prevent
 136 Intro|         water, seasons, years?’ Very good: and which shall I take
 137 Intro|            like, any name is equally good for any object. The fact
 138 Intro|           form dion is expressive of good, quasi diion, that which
 139 Intro|              all the colours makes a good picture, and he who gives
 140 Intro|         gives all the sounds makes a good name, and he who gives only
 141 Intro|             the legislator, may be a good or he may be a bad artist. ‘
 142 Intro|            the same principle as the good, and other examples might
 143 Intro|             a true beauty and a true good, which is always beautiful
 144 Intro|          always beautiful and always good? Can the thing beauty be
 145 Intro|       thought, Socrates, and after a good deal of thinking I incline
 146 Intro|              give me a lesson. ‘Very good, Socrates, and I hope that
 147 Intro|              explanation. Allowing a good deal for accident, and also
 148 Intro|             and their transitions to good and evil?~CLEINIAS: What
 149 Intro|     important than all the rest. The good or neutral sense of a word,
 150 Text |           tell me, if you will be so good, what is your own view of
 151 Text |              is the knowledge of the good.’ And the knowledge of names
 152 Text |             I was saying, there is a good deal of difficulty in this
 153 Text |             newly-imposed name is as good as the old: for there is
 154 Text |              are very bad men, and a good many of them.~SOCRATES:
 155 Text |              you ever found any very good ones?~HERMOGENES: Not many.~
 156 Text |         would you hold that the very good were the very wise, and
 157 Text |           his view can there be some good and others bad, if virtue
 158 Text |             SOCRATES: And this holds good of all actions?~HERMOGENES:
 159 Text |               A name.~SOCRATES: Very good: then a name is an instrument?~
 160 Text |            instrument may be equally good of whatever iron made, whether
 161 Text |       fitness of names.~SOCRATES: My good Hermogenes, I have none
 162 Text |             a name.~HERMOGENES: Very good.~SOCRATES: And what is the
 163 Text |           not himself suggest a very good reason, when he says,~‘For
 164 Text |         walls’?~This appears to be a good reason for calling the son
 165 Text |              I agree.~SOCRATES: Very good. But you had better watch
 166 Text |            be the son of a king, the good son or the noble son of
 167 Text |            son or the noble son of a good or noble sire; and similarly
 168 Text |         chief in war) and Eupolemus (good warrior); and others which
 169 Text |       prodigies? for example, when a good and religious man has an
 170 Text |        whence, will or will not hold good to the end.~HERMOGENES:
 171 Text |          like Eutychides (the son of good fortune), or Sosias (the
 172 Text |          literally made of gold, but good and noble; and I am convinced
 173 Text |              do you not suppose that good men of our own day would
 174 Text |            SOCRATES: And are not the good wise?~HERMOGENES: Yes, they
 175 Text |         poets say truly, that when a good man dies he has honour and
 176 Text |              man who happens to be a good man is more than human (
 177 Text |             also, I think, is a very good custom, and one which I
 178 Text |              philosophers, and had a good deal to say.~HERMOGENES:
 179 Text |               Socrates?~SOCRATES: My good friend, I have discovered
 180 Text |             things.~HERMOGENES: Very good; and what do we say of Demeter,
 181 Text |           Ermogenes), for I am not a good hand at speeches.~SOCRATES:
 182 Text |            the sun?~HERMOGENES: Very good.~SOCRATES: The origin of
 183 Text |            gegennesthai.~HERMOGENES: Good.~SOCRATES: What shall we
 184 Text |     indicates that the soul which is good for anything follows (epetai)
 185 Text |            supposed to be in motion. Good (agathon) is the name which
 186 Text |           smooth ground. There are a good many names generally thought
 187 Text |          then that the stream of the good soul is unimpeded, and has
 188 Text |             this word also signifies good, but in another way; he
 189 Text |         universal penetration in the good; in forming the word, however,
 190 Text |          view, as appears to me, the good is happily denominated lusiteloun—
 191 Text |      zemiodes (hurtful).~HERMOGENES: Good.~SOCRATES: The word blaberon
 192 Text |            the other appellations of good; for deon is here a species
 193 Text |            deon is here a species of good, and is, nevertheless, the
 194 Text |             with other words meaning good; for dion, not deon, signifies
 195 Text |              not deon, signifies the good, and is a term of praise;
 196 Text |        kerdaleon (gainful), agathon (good), sumpheron (expedient),
 197 Text |             names? The word agathon (good), for example, is, as we
 198 Text |              evident.~SOCRATES: Very good; but then how do the primary
 199 Text |             or not.~HERMOGENES: Very good.~SOCRATES: But are these
 200 Text |              analyse language to any good purpose must follow; but
 201 Text |          being friends should have a good understanding about the
 202 Text |               SOCRATES: That is very good of you, if I am right, which
 203 Text |         picture or figure, but not a good one.~CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 204 Text |           appropriate will produce a good image, or in other words
 205 Text |              make an image but not a good one; whence I infer that
 206 Text |            of names may be sometimes good, or he may be bad?~CRATYLUS:
 207 Text |        artists the legislator may be good or he may be bad; it must
 208 Text |           our former admissions hold good?~CRATYLUS: Very true, Socrates;
 209 Text |           Yes, I remember.~SOCRATES: Good; and when the general character
 210 Text |          chance sign.~SOCRATES: Very good: but if the name is to be
 211 Text |             upon occasion.~SOCRATES: Good. But still the word is intelligible
 212 Text |             can you ever imagine, my good friend, that you will find
 213 Text |             other words which have a good sense (compare omartein,
 214 Text |              I think that there is a good deal in what you say, Socrates.~
 215 Text |         which, then, did he make, my good friend; those which are
 216 Text |           not any absolute beauty or good, or any other absolute existence?~
 217 Text |            and the beautiful and the good and every other thing also
 218 Text |             your way.~CRATYLUS: Very good, Socrates; I hope, however,


Critias
     Part
 219 Text |             meats and ointments, and good store of chestnuts and the


Crito
     Part
 220 Intro|            heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who having been
 221 Intro|           makes no difference; but a good life, in other words, a
 222 Intro|              That Socrates was not a good citizen was a charge made
 223 Intro|              to a glorious death the good which he might still be
 224 Intro|            the wicked can do neither good nor evil is true, if taken
 225 Text |             the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only
 226 Text |           any one who has lost their good opinion.~SOCRATES: I only
 227 Text |              able to do the greatest good— and what a fine thing this
 228 Text |            saved you, if we had been good for anything; and you might
 229 Text |              argument which was once good now proved to be talk for
 230 Text |             Certainly.~SOCRATES: The good are to be regarded, and
 231 Text |             opinions of the wise are good, and the opinions of the
 232 Text |         drink in the way which seems good to his single master who
 233 Text |             the evil.~SOCRATES: Very good; and is not this true, Crito,
 234 Text |           and unjust, fair and foul, good and evil, which are the
 235 Text |          many about just and unjust, good and evil, honorable and
 236 Text |     proposition—that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued?~
 237 Text |            unshaken.~SOCRATES: And a good life is equivalent to a
 238 Text |             rhetorician, will have a good deal to say on behalf of
 239 Text |              I say that?~CRITO: Very good, Socrates.~SOCRATES: ‘And
 240 Text |             citizen a share in every good which we had to give, we
 241 Text |             praised by you for their good government, or to some other
 242 Text |            in this sort of way, what good will you do either to yourself
 243 Text |           not, if you keep them in a good temper; but if they are
 244 Text |          call themselves friends are good for anything, they will—


Euthydemus
     Part
 245 Intro|    philosophers, seem to be quite as good reasoners as those who have.
 246 Intro|             follows:—~All men desire good; and good means the possession
 247 Intro|             All men desire good; and good means the possession of
 248 Intro|             enumeration the greatest good of all is omitted. What
 249 Intro|            is omitted. What is that? Good fortune. But what need is
 250 Intro|            But what need is there of good fortune when we have wisdom
 251 Intro|          themselves they are neither good nor evil— knowledge and
 252 Intro|              and wisdom are the only good, and ignorance and folly
 253 Intro|             Since wisdom is the only good, he must become a philosopher,
 254 Intro|             two Sophists a lesson of good manners. But he is quickly
 255 Intro|              goods which are neither good nor evil: and if we say
 256 Intro|           say again that it makes us good, there is no answer to the
 257 Intro|             answer to the question, ‘good in what?’ At length in despair
 258 Intro|           that ‘he does not know the good to be unjust.’ Socrates
 259 Intro|     consequences which follow: ‘Much good has your father got out
 260 Intro|        unabashed, ‘nobody wants much good.’ Medicine is a good, arms
 261 Intro|            much good.’ Medicine is a good, arms are a good, money
 262 Intro|       Medicine is a good, arms are a good, money is a good, and yet
 263 Intro|          arms are a good, money is a good, and yet there may be too
 264 Intro|       ignorant that the union of two good things which have different
 265 Intro|             with the remark that the good in all professions are few,
 266 Intro|         describes them as making two good things, philosophy and politics,
 267 Text |            all about war,—all that a good general ought to know about
 268 Text |            one thing,—can you make a good man of him only who is already
 269 Text |            wish that you would be so good as to defer the other part
 270 Text |          that he should become truly good. His name is Cleinias, and
 271 Text |            another of the same sort.~Good heavens, I said; and your
 272 Text |            your last question was so good!~Like all our other questions,
 273 Text |             be happy if we have many good things? And this, perhaps,
 274 Text |             what things do we esteem good? No solemn sage is required
 275 Text |            will say that wealth is a good.~Certainly, he said.~And
 276 Text |              there be any doubt that good birth, and power, and honours
 277 Text |          happy and fortunate if many good things were present with
 278 Text |            reason of the presence of good things, if they profited
 279 Text |         happy must not only have the good things, but he must also
 280 Text |            well as the possession of good things, is that sufficient
 281 Text |           and the other is neither a good nor an evil. You admit that?~
 282 Text |              man, if he have neither good sense nor wisdom? Would
 283 Text |        themselves, but the degree of good and evil in them depends
 284 Text |              that wisdom is the only good, and ignorance the only
 285 Text |             only which will make him good and happy, and what that
 286 Text |  truth-speaking persons.~And are not good things good, and evil things
 287 Text |              And are not good things good, and evil things evil?~He
 288 Text |              they are?~Yes.~Then the good speak evil of evil things,
 289 Text |              I can tell you that the good speak evil of the evil.~
 290 Text |             in such a way as to make good and sensible men out of
 291 Text |              man and turn him into a good one—if they know this (and
 292 Text |              if he will only make me good.~Ctesippus said: And I,
 293 Text |            you prepared to make that good?~Certainly, he said.~Well,
 294 Text |             of answering. But if, my good sir, you admit that I am
 295 Text |           knowledge which will do us good?~Certainly, he said.~And
 296 Text |              it when made, be of any good to us. Am I not right?~He
 297 Text |              have any sense in them.~Good, I said, fairest and wisest
 298 Text |         Dionysodorus. I dare say, my good Crito, that they may have
 299 Text |              Socrates, by some one a good deal superior, as I should
 300 Text |           art which is the source of good government, and which may
 301 Text |        surely it ought to do us some good?~CRITO: Certainly, Socrates.~
 302 Text |             of some kind is the only good.~CRITO: Yes, that was what
 303 Text |           tranquillity, were neither good nor evil in themselves;
 304 Text |             which is likely to do us good, and make us happy.~CRITO:
 305 Text |         kingly art make men wise and good?~CRITO: Why not, Socrates?~
 306 Text |              works which are neither good nor evil, and gives no knowledge,
 307 Text |             we are to make other men good?~CRITO: By all means.~SOCRATES:
 308 Text |             And in what will they be good and useful? Shall we repeat
 309 Text |           that they will make others good, and that these others will
 310 Text |   determining in what they are to be good; for we have put aside the
 311 Text |             doubt your power to make good your words unless you have
 312 Text |              Euthydemus, as that the good are unjust; come, do I know
 313 Text |             What do I know?~That the good are not unjust.~Quite true,
 314 Text |           where did I learn that the good are unjust?~Nowhere, said
 315 Text |          Please not to interrupt, my good friend, or prevent Euthydemus
 316 Text |        proving to me that I know the good to be unjust; such a lesson
 317 Text |           Not by the same father, my good man, I said, for Chaeredemus
 318 Text |           begat such wise sons? much good has this father of you and
 319 Text |     Ctesippus, have any need of much good.~And have you no need, Euthydemus?
 320 Text |           Ctesippus, if you think it good or evil for a man who is
 321 Text |           armed rather than unarmed.~Good, I say. And yet I know that
 322 Text |             you admit medicine to be good for a man to drink, when
 323 Text |          when wanted, must it not be good for him to drink as much
 324 Text |             in war to have arms is a good thing, he ought to have
 325 Text |              possession of gold is a good thing?~Yes, said Ctesippus,
 326 Text |           everywhere and always is a good?~Certainly, a great good,
 327 Text |             good?~Certainly, a great good, he said.~And you admit
 328 Text |           And you admit gold to be a good?~Certainly, he replied.~
 329 Text |            said Euthydemus.~Then, my good friend, do they all speak?~
 330 Text |             brother seem to me to be good workmen in your own department,
 331 Text |             he, is the business of a good workman? tell me, in the
 332 Text |           was certain that something good would come out of the questions,
 333 Text |             I said, do not be rough; good words, if you please; in
 334 Text |              differences, whether of good and evil, white or black,
 335 Text |         prove the philosophers to be good for nothing, no one will
 336 Text |           one of these two things is good and the other evil, are
 337 Text |            are in a mean between two good things which do not tend
 338 Text |            political action are both good, but tend to different ends,
 339 Text |            either; or, if the one be good and the other evil, they
 340 Text |             about marrying a wife of good family to be the mother
 341 Text |       inferior sort are numerous and good for nothing, and the good
 342 Text |            good for nothing, and the good are few and beyond all price:
 343 Text |           teachers of philosophy are good or bad, but think only of
 344 Text |             the saying is, and be of good cheer.~THE END~     >


Euthyphro
     Part
 345 Intro|             men harm than to do them good;’ and Socrates was anticipating
 346 Intro|              gods? Especially, about good and evil, which have no
 347 Intro|           they are the givers of all good, how can we give them any
 348 Intro|             how can we give them any good in return? ‘Nay, but we
 349 Intro|          them in all things true and good, he stops short; this was
 350 Text |        serious charge, which shows a good deal of character in the
 351 Text |              virtue in youth; like a good husbandman, he makes the
 352 Text |            SOCRATES: Your father! my good man?~EUTHYPHRO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 353 Text |         piety and impiety.~SOCRATES: Good heavens, Euthyphro! and
 354 Text |            matters. What should I be good for without it?~SOCRATES:
 355 Text |              to them.~SOCRATES: Very good, Euthyphro; you have now
 356 Text |           example that you and I, my good friend, differ about a number;
 357 Text |             are the just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and
 358 Text |           opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust,
 359 Text |             deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of
 360 Text |             they find that you are a good speaker. There was a notion
 361 Text |             We shall know better, my good friend, in a little while.
 362 Text |            to men.~SOCRATES: That is good, Euthyphro; yet still there
 363 Text |              always designed for the good or benefit of that to which
 364 Text |         tended or attended for their good and not for their hurt?~
 365 Text |              SOCRATES: But for their good?~EUTHYPHRO: Of course.~SOCRATES:
 366 Text |              which I mean.~SOCRATES: Good: but I must still ask what
 367 Text |        SOCRATES: And now tell me, my good friend, about the art which
 368 Text |          give to us; for there is no good thing which they do not
 369 Text |              but how we can give any good thing to them in return


The First Alcibiades
     Part
 370 Pre  |          Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty
 371 Intro|      continues:—We wish to become as good as possible. But to be good
 372 Intro|          good as possible. But to be good in what? Alcibiades replies—‘
 373 Intro|            what? Alcibiades replies—‘Good in transacting business.’
 374 Intro|         shoemaking, and is therefore good in that; he is not intelligent,
 375 Intro|       intelligent, and therefore not good, in weaving. Is he good
 376 Intro|              good, in weaving. Is he good in the sense which Alcibiades
 377 Intro|          from him. The definition of good is narrowed by successive
 378 Intro|             more decided. There is a good deal of humour in the manner
 379 Text |              ALCIBIADES: Proceed, my good man, and I will listen.~
 380 Text |             if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that
 381 Text |             SOCRATES: Then you are a good adviser about the things
 382 Text |       Whether he be little or great, good or ill-looking, noble or
 383 Text |            not.~SOCRATES: A man is a good adviser about anything,
 384 Text |              suppose.~SOCRATES: Very good; and now please to tell
 385 Text |             so think?~SOCRATES: Very good; and can you tell me how
 386 Text |             friend; and the many are good enough teachers of Greek,
 387 Text |             have the qualities which good teachers ought to have.~
 388 Text |           they may be expected to be good teachers of these things?~
 389 Text |          done rightly and come to no good.~SOCRATES: Well, but granting
 390 Text |          honourable things sometimes good and sometimes not good,
 391 Text |     sometimes good and sometimes not good, or are they always good?~
 392 Text |             good, or are they always good?~ALCIBIADES: I rather think,
 393 Text |            some dishonourable things good?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 394 Text |             if honourable, then also good: Will you consider now whether
 395 Text |      honourable? Now is this courage good or evil? Look at the matter
 396 Text |             would you rather choose, good or evil?~ALCIBIADES: Good.~
 397 Text |            good or evil?~ALCIBIADES: Good.~SOCRATES: And the greatest
 398 Text |            as much as courage does a good work?~ALCIBIADES: I should.~
 399 Text |             which is the result, and good in respect of the good which
 400 Text |           and good in respect of the good which is the result of either
 401 Text |     honourable in so far as they are good, and dishonourable in so
 402 Text |            saying that the rescue is good and yet evil?~ALCIBIADES:
 403 Text |              base, regarded as base, good.~ALCIBIADES: Clearly not.~
 404 Text |           happy are those who obtain good?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
 405 Text |            SOCRATES: And they obtain good by acting well and honourably?~
 406 Text |      SOCRATES: Then acting well is a good?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
 407 Text |         SOCRATES: And happiness is a good?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 408 Text |              Yes.~SOCRATES: Then the good and the honourable are again
 409 Text |             we shall also find to be good?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
 410 Text |      Certainly.~SOCRATES: And is the good expedient or not?~ALCIBIADES:
 411 Text |            And the honourable is the good?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 412 Text |               Yes.~SOCRATES: And the good is expedient?~ALCIBIADES:
 413 Text |        honourable and dishonourable, good and evil, expedient and
 414 Text |            just, the honourable, the good, and the expedient?~ALCIBIADES:
 415 Text |              we are alone I will: My good friend, you are wedded to
 416 Text |       gaining wisdom.~SOCRATES: Very good; but did you ever know a
 417 Text |               Verily, then, you have good reason to be satisfied,
 418 Text |              do we not wish to be as good as possible?~ALCIBIADES:
 419 Text |            Plainly, in the virtue of good men.~SOCRATES: Who are good
 420 Text |          good men.~SOCRATES: Who are good in what?~ALCIBIADES: Those,
 421 Text |              Those, clearly, who are good in the management of affairs.~
 422 Text |               SOCRATES: And a man is good in respect of that in which
 423 Text |            Yes.~SOCRATES: Then he is good in that?~ALCIBIADES: He
 424 Text |           the matter the same man is good and also bad?~ALCIBIADES:
 425 Text |           But would you say that the good are the same as the bad?~
 426 Text |            Then whom do you call the good?~ALCIBIADES: I mean by the
 427 Text |            ALCIBIADES: I mean by the good those who are able to rule
 428 Text |            ALCIBIADES: I should say, good counsel, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
 429 Text |        ALCIBIADES: No.~SOCRATES: But good counsel?~ALCIBIADES: Yes,
 430 Text |           that is what I should say,—good counsel, of which the aim
 431 Text |             is the aim of that other good counsel of which you speak?~
 432 Text |          saying, alone secures their good order?~ALCIBIADES: But I
 433 Text |              in order that we may be good men? I cannot make out where
 434 Text |        vulgar, and are not such as a good man would practise?~ALCIBIADES:
 435 Text |              harm’s way.~ALCIBIADES: Good advice, Socrates, but I
 436 Text |             others?~ALCIBIADES: Very good.~SOCRATES: But how can we
 437 Text |             can we ever know our own good and evil?~ALCIBIADES: How
 438 Text |          Then he who is not wise and good cannot be happy?~ALCIBIADES:
 439 Text |              yourselves and your own good?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 440 Text |           tyrannical power, then, my good Alcibiades, should be the


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 441 Intro|              the moral antithesis of good and pleasure, or the intellectual
 442 Intro|           into a general view of the good and evil of man. After making
 443 Intro|         desire of all is towards the good. That pleasure is to be
 444 Intro|             to be distinguished from good is proved by the simultaneousness
 445 Intro|             as great as those of the good, or even greater. Not merely
 446 Intro|         maintaining that pleasure is good, and that might is right,
 447 Intro|              of human life. He has a good will to Socrates, whose
 448 Intro|       convinced that he or any other good man who attempted to resist
 449 Intro|         death before he had done any good to himself or others. Here
 450 Intro|               boasts himself to be a good one.’ At the request of
 451 Intro|              and saying that her own good is superior to that of the
 452 Intro|           the state, is the greatest good.’ But what is the exact
 453 Intro|          self-defence. Rhetoric is a good thing, but, like all good
 454 Intro|            good thing, but, like all good things, may be unlawfully
 455 Intro|              of desire, which is the good. ‘As if you, Socrates, would
 456 Intro|             natures ever come to any good; they avoid the busy haunts
 457 Intro|             identity of pleasure and good. Will Callicles still maintain
 458 Intro|           the argument. Pleasure and good are the same, but knowledge
 459 Intro|              either with pleasure or good, or with one another. Socrates
 460 Intro|      drinking and thirsting, whereas good and evil are not simultaneous,
 461 Intro|       pleasure cannot be the same as good.~Callicles has already lost
 462 Intro|          knowledge from pleasure and good, proceeds:—The good are
 463 Intro|              and good, proceeds:—The good are good by the presence
 464 Intro|               proceeds:—The good are good by the presence of good,
 465 Intro|              good by the presence of good, and the bad are bad by
 466 Intro|           And the brave and wise are good, and the cowardly and foolish
 467 Intro|             he who feels pleasure is good, and he who feels pain is
 468 Intro|              bad man or coward is as good as the brave or may be even
 469 Intro|        admitted some pleasures to be good and others bad. The good
 470 Intro|             good and others bad. The good are the beneficial, and
 471 Intro|             done for the sake of the good.~Callicles assents to this,
 472 Intro|         distinguishing pleasure from good, returns to his old division
 473 Intro|           order out of disorder. The good man and true orator has
 474 Intro|          self-restraint. And this is good for the soul, and better
 475 Intro|      pleasant is not the same as the good—Callicles and I are agreed
 476 Intro|          pursued for the sake of the good, and the good is that of
 477 Intro|            sake of the good, and the good is that of which the presence
 478 Intro|          which the presence makes us good; we and all things good
 479 Intro|              good; we and all things good have acquired some virtue
 480 Intro|           temperate and is therefore good, and the intemperate is
 481 Intro|           that a bad man will kill a good one. ‘Yes, and that is the
 482 Intro|              done his passengers any good in saving them from death,
 483 Intro|            directed to making men as good as possible. And those who
 484 Intro|          should make the citizens as good as possible. But who would
 485 Intro|             he could not have been a good statesman. The same tale
 486 Intro|              you who were the really good statesmen, you answer—as
 487 Intro|             I asked you who were the good trainers, and you answered,
 488 Intro|            the bad man will kill the good. But he thinks that such
 489 Intro|       actuated by a desire for their good. And therefore there is
 490 Intro|              to help himself is in a good condition?’ Yes, Callicles,
 491 Intro|          upon them they departed—the good to the islands of the blest,
 492 Intro|             a great man from being a good one, as is shown by the
 493 Intro|              souls are only known as good or bad; they are stripped
 494 Intro|             is bad, he should become good, and avoid all flattery,
 495 Intro|          custom, the honourable, the good, is not cleared up. The
 496 Intro|           antithesis of pleasure and good, and to an erroneous assertion
 497 Intro|            under the ambiguous terms good, pleasure, and the like.
 498 Intro|              When a martyr dies in a good cause, when a soldier falls
 499 Intro|            human things the wise and good are weak and miserable;
 500 Intro|        sacrifice their lives for the good of others. It is difficult