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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| oath, when he is himself being tried for impiety.~As he
2 Intro| of the speech, instead of being more conciliatory, becomes
3 Text | to one man after another, being not unconscious of the enmity
4 Text | examined by them instead of being angry with themselves are
5 Text | neither I nor any other human being is ever likely to be convinced
6 Text | to be the sons—what human being will ever believe that there
7 Text | there is no danger of my being the last of them.~Some one
8 Text | wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the
9 Text | This is what deters me from being a politician. And rightly,
10 Text | especially now, when I am being tried for impiety on the
11 Text | place of exile, and always being driven out! For I am quite
12 Text | assuredly not. For besides being happier than we are, they
Charmides
Part
13 PreS | Further, the translation being English, it should also
14 PreS | to the Greek, the English being really the more lucid and
15 PreS | characteristics of a sentient being, and then only by speaking
16 Text | he has a noble soul; and being of your house, Critias,
17 Text | Charmides, blessed art thou, in being the son of thy mother. And
18 Text | would have the property of being greater and also less than
19 Text | knows?~True.~Then wisdom or being wise appears to be not the
20 Text | been a great advantage in being wise; for then we should
Cratylus
Part
21 Intro| that they were capable of being embodied in words. Of the
22 Intro| Hermogenes, either as ‘not being in luck,’ or ‘being no speaker;’
23 Intro| not being in luck,’ or ‘being no speaker;’ the dearly-bought
24 Intro| parts (Zeus, Dios). For he, being the lord and king of all,
25 Intro| all, is the author of our being, and in him all live: this
26 Intro| form, Dios, Zenos, which being put together and interpreted
27 Intro| about the heaven; and they being the original gods of the
28 Intro| changed; the original meaning being o anathron a opopen—he who
29 Intro| anticipation of Anaxagoras, being a contraction of selaenoneoaeia,
30 Intro| through—the letter kappa being inserted for the sake of
31 Intro| preceded; for all things being in a flux, kakia is to kakos
32 Intro| roun. The inventor of words being a patron of the flux, was
33 Intro| rather in that of swift, being the principle which makes
34 Intro| replies, that he is afraid of being self-deceived, and therefore
35 Intro| primary agency of the divine Being is confused with the secondary
36 Intro| they are also capable of being trained and improved and
37 Intro| of words is in process of being lost. If at first framed
38 Intro| organism which is always being reproduced. They are refined
39 Intro| is always in process of being lost and being renewed,
40 Intro| process of being lost and being renewed, just as the picture
41 Intro| nature, by a law, calls into being an organised structure.
42 Intro| field of language admits of being mapped out. There is the
43 Intro| cities which have come into being and perished during this
44 Intro| defined, hardly escapes from being a truism. If by ‘the natural
45 Intro| action, though very far from being a mere chaos, is indefinite,
46 Intro| some other preposition ‘being understood’ in a Greek sentence
47 Intro| b) from any necessity of being understood,—much less articulation
48 Intro| subject to laws, is far from being of an exact and uniform
49 Text | actions also a class of being?~HERMOGENES: Yes, the actions
50 Text | knows how to direct what is being done, and who will know
51 Text | also whether the work is being well done or not?~HERMOGENES:
52 Text | inserted in words instead of being omitted, and the acute takes
53 Text | is almost self-explained, being only the name of a spring,
54 Text | eidos). And perhaps also he being the shaker of the earth,
55 Text | such as the fear of always being with him after death, and
56 Text | ablutions and absolutions, as being the physician who orders
57 Text | reason, my friend, in Pan being the double-formed son of
58 Text | aipolos (goat-herd), he being the two-formed son of Hermes,
59 Text | words etos and eniautos being thus formed out of a single
60 Text | justice; but I, Hermogenes, being an enthusiastic disciple,
61 Text | such that at last no human being can possibly make out the
62 Text | mechane. But, as I was saying, being now at the top of my bent,
63 Text | preceded, for all things being in a flux (ionton), kakia
64 Text | of aischron is evident, being only aei ischon roes (always
65 Text | lusiteloun), as that which being the swiftest thing in existence,
66 Text | happily denominated lusiteloun—being that which looses (luon)
67 Text | necessary and resistant being contrary to our will, implies
68 Text | pseudos (falsehood) and on (being), not forgetting to enquire
69 Text | signifying on ou zetema (being for which there is a search);
70 Text | the true principle, for being (on) is also moving (ion),
71 Text | same may be said of not being, which is likewise called
72 Text | names, is implied in their being names.~HERMOGENES: Surely.~
73 Text | as I am desirous that we being friends should have a good
74 Text | meaning, is in great danger of being deceived?~CRATYLUS: How
75 Text | names, if he was an inspired being or God, to contradict himself?
Critias
Part
76 Intro| earlier passage that Poseidon, being a God, found no difficulty
77 Text | at rest! And I pray the being who always was of old, and
78 Text | having a common nature, and being united also in the love
79 Text | mere skeleton of the land being left. But in the primitive
80 Text | This is how they dwelt, being the guardians of their own
81 Text | women through all time, being so many as were required
82 Text | not as yet. He himself, being a god, found no difficulty
83 Text | many parts of the island, being more precious in those days
84 Text | Poseidon; and the ten kings, being left alone in the temple,
85 Text | the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune,
86 Text | holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of
Crito
Part
87 Text | informers they are far from being exorbitant in their demands—
88 Text | and institutions and laws being the best things among men?
Euthydemus
Part
89 Intro| impression of an ‘eternal being’ or ‘perpetual flux,’ how
90 Intro| different meanings of one and being are worked out in the Parmenides.
91 Intro| the process to which he is being subjected. The two strangers
92 Intro| enthronement, and he is being initiated into the mysteries
93 Intro| as well as the Eleatic Being and Not-being, alike admit
94 Intro| Not-being, alike admit of being regarded as verbal fallacies.
95 Text | pair of heroes, besides being perfect in the use of their
96 Text | sensible man: for what human being is there who does not desire
97 Text | them jest and play, and being under this impression, I
98 Text | in them)—they, I say, not being able to use but only to
99 Text | render up the supremacy, that being the only one which knew
100 Text | than a stone?~I am.~And being other than a stone, you
101 Text | you are not a stone; and being other than gold, you are
102 Text | so Chaeredemus, he said, being other than a father, is
103 Text | father, then Sophroniscus, being other than a father, is
104 Text | by reason of one thing being present with another, will
105 Text | refutation of others than of being refuted by them. I must
Euthyphro
Part
106 Intro| the state; e.g. the act of being carried, loved, etc. precedes
107 Intro| etc. precedes the state of being carried, loved, etc., and
108 Intro| do not care about any man being thought wise until he begins
109 Intro| dunamis); and the state of being loved is preceded by the
110 Intro| is preceded by the act of being loved. But piety or holiness
111 Intro| is preceded by the act of being pious, not by the act of
112 Intro| pious, not by the act of being loved; and therefore piety
113 Intro| therefore piety and the state of being loved are different. Through
114 Text | gods is impious, these two being the extreme opposites of
115 Text | carrying and we speak of being carried, of leading and
116 Text | carried, of leading and being led, seeing and being seen.
117 Text | and being led, seeing and being seen. You know that in all
118 Text | because it is in the state of being led, or carried because
119 Text | because it is in the state of being carried, but the converse
120 Text | instances; the state of being loved follows the act of
121 Text | loved follows the act of being loved, and not the act the
122 Text | would have been loved as being dear to God; but if that
123 Text | essence—the attribute of being loved by all the gods. But
124 Text | them in return is far from being equally clear. If they give
125 Text | away? Will you accuse me of being the Daedalus who makes them
The First Alcibiades
Part
126 Pre | will compare the Ion as being akin both in subject and
127 Text | desire, but I only, God being my helper. When you were
128 Text | was quite aware that I was being cheated.~SOCRATES: Then
129 Text | the greatest matters, but being ignorant you fancy that
130 Text | action, would you only aim at being the best pilot on board?
131 Text | to be your rivals; and, being regarded by you as inferiors,
132 Text | always possessed, besides being at various times sovereigns
133 Text | shapely as possible; which being their calling, they are
134 Text | Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over men who
135 Text | the dark and godless, and being in darkness and ignorance
Gorgias
Part
136 Intro| of knowledge and opinion, being and appearance, are never
137 Intro| the meaning of Archelaus being miserable, or of rhetoric
138 Intro| miserable, or of rhetoric being only useful in self-accusation.
139 Intro| rather than the authors, being themselves carried away
140 Intro| the words of Gorgias, of being ‘as long as he pleases,’
141 Intro| maintain any other view without being ridiculous. The profession
142 Intro| next best thing to a man’s being just is that he should be
143 Intro| the Apology, he disclaims being a politician at all. There
144 Intro| great indignation at not being allowed to use as many words
145 Intro| that Archelaus was a slave, being the son of a woman who was
146 Intro| different from saving and being saved? I would have you
147 Intro| The old story is always being repeated—‘after all his
148 Intro| the time when they were being judged, there was favouritism,
149 Intro| prevent a great man from being a good one, as is shown
150 Intro| they were the better for being punished.’ Still his doctrine
151 Intro| different in the two dialogues; being described in the former,
152 Intro| shall be always in danger of being deceived. And so the words
153 Intro| second rank to-day without being ready to restore them to
154 Intro| most real of all things, being another name for ourselves
155 Intro| of politics. But the game being one in which chance and
156 Intro| govern from the fear of being governed by a worse man
157 Intro| any other doctrine without being ridiculous.~There is a further
158 Intro| history —Christ himself being one of them—have attained
159 Intro| men from death, the reason being that he is uncertain whether
160 Intro| the chief point or moral being that in the judgments of
161 Intro| them from seeing into or being seen by one another.~The
162 Intro| The mind through all her being is immortal’)—can only be
163 Text | difference, the difference being that the art of calculation
164 Text | which is truly the greatest, being that which gives to men
165 Text | as the gain is greater of being cured of a very great evil
166 Text | that there was a gain in being refuted, there would be
167 Text | mean: The soul and body being two, have two arts corresponding
168 Text | which he now occupies, he being only the son of a woman
169 Text | you at first, Polus, for being a rhetorician rather than
170 Text | say that which no human being will allow? Ask the company.~
171 Text | punishment is another name for being justly corrected when you
172 Text | admitted, let me ask whether being punished is suffering or
173 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: But is the being healed a pleasant thing,
174 Text | thing, and are those who are being healed pleased?~POLUS: I
175 Text | surely does not consist in being delivered from evils, but
176 Text | greatest crimes, and who, being the most unjust of men,
177 Text | is afraid of the pain of being burned or cut:—Is not that
178 Text | punishment and to avoid being released from the greatest
179 Text | of death, to die, himself being the first to accuse himself
180 Text | should try to prevent his being punished, or appearing before
181 Text | contradict himself, that being just the sort of thing in
182 Text | admission which led to his being entangled by you; and because
183 Text | them, and without their being given to him, he carried
184 Text | whether you are not ashamed of being thus defenceless; which
185 Text | rights of citizenship?—he being a man who, if I may use
186 Text | weakness, and one of us, being a physician, is wiser in
187 Text | others of us—will he not, being wiser, be also better than
188 Text | be the weakest of all, he being the best of all will have
189 Text | the nobler natures, and being unable to satisfy their
190 Text | the desires are seated, being the intemperate and incontinent
191 Text | CALLICLES: What a strange being you are, Socrates! a regular
192 Text | simultaneous, when you say that being thirsty, you drink? For
193 Text | that I or any other human being denies that some pleasures
194 Text | Callicles, the temperate man, being, as we have described, also
195 Text | true.~And now, these things being as we have said, let us
196 Text | evil so is the honour of being able to avert them in their
197 Text | and the disgrace of not being able to avert them. Am I
198 Text | different from saving and being saved:—May not he who is
199 Text | think that we or any human being should be so silly as to
200 Text | and reproaching me for not being one, suppose that we ask
201 Text | currier; and in so doing, being such as he is, he is naturally
202 Text | piece of work is always being made, as I see and am told,
203 Text | and then blaming him for being bad?~CALLICLES: Yes, it
204 Text | injustice can be in no danger of being treated unjustly: he alone
205 Text | next best thing to a man being just is that he should become
Ion
Part
206 Intro| wide awake when Homer is being recited, but is apt to go
207 Intro| delighted at the notion of being inspired, and acknowledges
208 Intro| men of merit are always being sought after, is he not
209 Text | good when the same topic is being discussed.~ION: True.~SOCRATES:
210 Text | SOCRATES: And you admitted that being different they would have
Laches
Part
211 Text | Laches, even at the risk of being tedious, how we came to
212 Text | ashamed of this contrast being seen by them, and we blame
213 Text | prospect of our family ties being renewed.~LACHES: Indeed,
214 Text | in valour, he cannot help being ridiculous, if he says that
215 Text | that there is no harm in being reminded of any wrong thing
216 Text | and I am really grieved at being thus unable to express my
217 Text | definition of yours, instead of being a part of virtue only, will
Laws
Book
218 1 | from this scorching sun. Being no longer young, we may
219 1 | re–established, and that, being reconciled, they should
220 1 | although they are far from being self–evident to the rest
221 1 | speaking of a man or a city being inferior to themselves:—
222 1 | opportunity of enjoying them, they being often the worst of mankind.
223 1 | Athenian. And what if besides being a coward he has no skill?~
224 1 | questions which are now being raised, is precisely what
225 1 | moral of the tale about our being puppets will not have been
226 1 | reputation; we are afraid of being thought evil, because we
227 1 | by the draught—his virtue being such, that he never in any
228 2 | rate, they are far from being corrupted in Egypt.~Cleinias.
229 2 | places novelties are always being introduced in dancing and
230 2 | pleasures are so far from being the same, as you describe
231 2 | doing of wrong and there being no wrong done is good and
232 2 | the approach of insolence, being that divine fear which we
233 3 | thousands of cities come into being during this period and as
234 3 | enquiring about laws, this being our old man’s sober game
235 3 | instances of laws or governments being the salvation or destruction
236 3 | fool is full of danger, being likely to end in the opposite
237 3 | but according to nature, being the rule of law over willing
238 3 | arrangement the kingly office, being compounded of the right
239 3 | freedom to the subjects, and being treated as equals, the soldiers
240 3 | the so–called blessing of being royal they were educated
241 3 | When he came to the throne, being one of the seven, he divided
242 3 | fatal mistake?” For Xerxes, being the creation of the same
243 3 | men. And they cannot help being stupid, since they proclaim
244 3 | arrived of mighty preparations being made, and innumerable threats
245 3 | this way the theatres from being mute have become vocal,
246 3 | do not mind about their being foreign if they are better.
247 4 | or ever shall come into being, or is now among us, blessed
248 4 | best constitution come into being; but in no other way. And
249 4 | before the cities came into being whose settlements we have
250 4 | another, the ruling class being in perpetual fear that some
251 4 | depends the well– or ill–being of the state. For that state
252 4 | left deserted of God; and being thus deserted, he takes
253 4 | whatever comes in, and his art being imitative, he is often compelled
254 4 | described by our friend here as being hortatory only, was, although
255 5 | the Gods below, instead of being evil, may be the greatest
256 5 | most harmonious of all, being in accord and agreement
257 5 | and on them every mortal being must of necessity hang and
258 5 | fairest in appearance, but as being one which, if a man will
259 5 | from the argument—the point being what is according to nature,
260 5 | relation to desire. And such being the necessary order of things,
261 5 | necessarily superior as being stronger, and having a certain
262 5 | pure and healthy nature and being of every other animal, if
263 5 | the legislator, who, not being a despot, sets up a new
264 5 | number is further capable of being divided into four or five
265 5 | in the game of draughts, being an unusual one, will probably
266 5 | on becoming richer from being, poorer, or poorer from
267 5 | poorer, or poorer from being richer. The form of law
268 5 | state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest
269 6 | a state thus trained not being permanent.~Cleinias. A reasonable
270 6 | in all, nineteen of them being taken from the settlers,
271 6 | the new city which is now being founded, and any other city
272 6 | and convey to them, care being taken that they may reach
273 6 | precisely defined either as being or not being offices; a
274 6 | defined either as being or not being offices; a superficial sketch
275 6 | works, which are always being made brighter and more beautiful.~
276 6 | went on—do you not see that being a mortal, unless he leaves
277 6 | twelfth part of the whole, being correctly formed by 21 X
278 6 | seeing one another and being seen naked, at a proper
279 6 | And he who is conscious of being too headstrong, and carried
280 6 | good.~Athenian. The city being new and hitherto uninhabited,
281 6 | streets. The form of the city being that of a single dwelling
282 6 | an agreeable aspect, and being easily guarded will be infinitely
283 6 | and how can any one avoid being utterly ridiculous, who
284 6 | third part of the day, and being there assembled, let them
285 7 | them, a harmonious motion being diffused everywhere, and
286 7 | generation of children, and, being different, will desire a
287 7 | nomoi), and this latter being the name which the ancients
288 7 | on, and the victims are being burnt according to law—if,
289 7 | the appointment of nature; being for the most part puppets,
290 7 | thus the state, instead of being a whole, is reduced to a
291 7 | the argument, but the fact being as I have said, he who rejects
292 7 | their country when it was being destroyed, and strike terror
293 7 | accomplished which is far from being small or insignificant,
294 7 | night in sleep, instead of being seen by all his servants,
295 7 | foolishness; then, again, being a freeman, he must be controlled
296 7 | city, which is far from being an impossibility, great
297 7 | same pleasures, themselves being as far as possible alike,
298 7 | an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too
299 7 | he imposes by law. This being premised, there will follow
300 7 | censure of hunting; the praise being assigned to that kind which
301 8 | they should honour him as being always the best friend of
302 8 | acquiring the power of not being wronged. No man can be perfectly
303 8 | knowledge, and does not admit of being made a secondary occupation;
304 8 | occupation; and hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two
305 8 | Of course.~Athenian. Such being the case, let no one of
306 8 | in the second; place, as being inspectors of temperance
307 8 | children of the metics, being artisans, and of fifteen
308 9 | heroes and sons of gods, being, according to the popular
309 9 | in such proceedings, and, being one of the chief magistrates
310 9 | But, then, how can I avoid being inconsistent with myself,
311 9 | as many as are capable of being healed, regarding them as
312 9 | about the best. The latter being subdivided into three, we
313 9 | author of his death; and being himself full of fear and
314 9 | who are the authors of his being, and whom the legislator
315 9 | his hands only. He who, being more than forty years of
316 9 | he who is at hand, not being younger than the combatants,
317 9 | their fathers or mothers, he being at the time of sound mind,
318 10 | claiming for them a divine being, if we would listen to the
319 10 | greatest laws, when they are being undermined by bad men, but
320 10 | pass a rapid river, and I, being the youngest of the three
321 10 | motions ought we to prefer as being the mightiest and most efficient?~
322 10 | must say that self–motion being the origin of all motions,
323 10 | other things is capable of being divided into equal parts;
324 10 | Certainly not; the soul as being the source of motion, has
325 10 | self–moving power at all, being in truth the change of an
326 10 | which a God or some inferior being might be wanting in strength
327 10 | and you fancied that from being miserable they had become
328 11 | himself and his family, he not being one of my ancestors, nor
329 11 | with many stripes by him, being a person of not less than
330 11 | freeman, in addition to being thought a mean person and
331 11 | one takes away him who is being carried off as a slave,
332 11 | guilty of violence, and being convicted shall pay as a
333 11 | citizen who is present, not being less than thirty years of
334 11 | daughters, let his brother, being the son of the same father
335 11 | who live with him—and he, being master of his property,
336 11 | accomplished. Now these things being thus ordered by nature,
337 11 | let him die; and if, not being a prophet, he be convicted
338 11 | freeman, under the penalty of being dishonoured, and held disobedient
339 12 | even in the least things being under his guidance; for
340 12 | commanding others, and of being commanded by others; anarchy
341 12 | penalties which admit of being doubled let him suffer twice
342 12 | trusting to the scrutiny being over, should, after the
343 12 | consent of the guardians, being such citizens as desire
344 12 | the law, the ten eldest being chosen; the general superintendent
345 12 | doors of the wise and rich, being one of them himself: let
346 12 | prevents another by force from being present at a trial, whether
347 12 | freeman, besides the suit being incomplete, the other who
348 12 | other sort of contest, from being present at the contest,
349 12 | for the true and immortal being of each one of us which
350 12 | mean?~Athenian. The well–being of those two is obviously
351 12 | a question:—O wonderful being, and to what are you looking?
352 12 | speak of as two, one part being courage and the other wisdom.
353 12 | knowledge of virtue, the city being unguarded should experience
354 12 | contemplating. anything, than the being able to look at one idea
355 12 | in prudence, and which, being one, we call as we ought,
356 12 | said to be incapable of being stated beforehand, because
357 12 | and rightly educated; and being educated, and dwelling in
Lysis
Part
358 Intro| This, however, is far from being cleared of its perplexity.
359 Intro| keep them in repair;’ or being admitted to intimacy with
360 Text | Why, he said, his father being a very well-known man, he
361 Text | anxious to prevent you from being happy, and doing as you
362 Text | at the time when they are being hated by them.~I think that
363 Text | is this paradox of a man being an enemy to his friend or
364 Text | Lysis, whether we are not being deceived in all this—are
365 Text | the presence of evil, not being as yet evil, the presence
366 Text | ignorant to the extent of being evil, for no evil or ignorant
367 Text | he a motive and object in being a friend, or has he no motive
368 Text | I believe, that the body being neither good nor evil, because
369 Text | which is not capable of being referred to any other, for
Menexenus
Part
370 Pre | will compare the Ion as being akin both in subject and
371 Text | first, and above all, as being dear to the Gods. This is
372 Text | these, too, our brethren, being nobly born and having been
373 Text | retained the reputation of being invincible in numbers and
374 Text | gained the reputation of being invincible, even though
375 Text | injurers when they were being enslaved, but she was softened,
376 Text | will be suspected of not being our parents, or we of not
377 Text | our parents, or we of not being such as our panegyrists
Meno
Part
378 Intro| knowledge, but is incapable of being taught, and is also liable,
379 Intro| the process to which he is being subjected. For he is exhibited
380 Intro| is also carried further, being made the foundation not
381 Intro| converted into the Supreme Being, who ‘because He was good’
382 Intro| hold fast one or two. The being of God in a personal or
383 Intro| The Eleatic notion that being and thought were the same
384 Intro| less are they capable of being applied to particular and
385 Intro| intoxicated with the idea of Being or God. The greatness of
386 Text | the compliment. As to my being a torpedo, if the torpedo
387 Text | ages.’ The soul, then, as being immortal, and having been
388 Text | controlling yourself,—such being your notion of freedom,
389 Text | certain triangle is capable being inscribed in a certain circle (
390 Text | certain area is capable of being inscribed as a triangle
391 Text | this triangle is capable of being inscribed in the circle’:—
392 Text | assumed to be incapable of being taught?~MENO: True; but
393 Text | virtue a thing incapable of being communicated or imparted
394 Text | who had the reputation of being the most celebrated wrestlers
395 Text | not.~SOCRATES: And nature being excluded, then came the
396 Text | be divine and illumined, being inspired and possessed of
Parmenides
Part
397 Intro| assault on his own doctrine of Being, appears to be the height
398 Intro| Panathenaea, the former being at the time about sixty-five
399 Intro| Socrates, ‘to argue that being, if it is many, must be
400 Intro| from the assumption that being is many.’ ‘Such is my meaning.’ ‘
401 Intro| also many. For example, I, being many, that is to say, having
402 Intro| and partake of the one, being one of seven who are here
403 Intro| corresponds to absolute truth and being, and particular knowledge
404 Intro| to particular truth and being.’ Clearly.’ ‘And there is
405 Intro| generation, corruption, being and not being. And the consequences
406 Intro| corruption, being and not being. And the consequences must
407 Intro| obvious fact, that the body being one has many members, and
408 Intro| From the crude idea of Being in the abstract, he was
409 Intro| Xenophon of any such method being attributed to Socrates;
410 Intro| as the notions of One or Being were to an ancient Eleatic. ‘
411 Intro| speaks of a similar method being applied to all Ideas. Yet
412 Intro| the Hegelian identity of Being and Not-being. The Being
413 Intro| Being and Not-being. The Being and Not-being of Plato never
414 Intro| asserted the existence of Being, which they at first regarded
415 Intro| philosophy was to deny to Being all predicates. The Megarians,
416 Intro| also converted the idea of Being into an abstraction of Good,
417 Intro| language of modern philosophy: ‘Being is not only neither finite
418 Intro| you cannot even assert being or time of this without
419 Intro| still remained the idea of ‘being’ or ‘good,’ which could
420 Intro| ever touched the Divine Being (compare Phil.). The same
421 Intro| difficulties about Unity and Being are raised in the Sophist;
422 Intro| one is one, Or, one has being,~from which opposite consequences
423 Intro| nothing. 1.b. If one has being, it is all things.~To which
424 Intro| consequences: 1.aa. If one has being, all other things are. 1.
425 Intro| things. 2.b. If one has not being, it is nothing.~Involving
426 Intro| all. 2.bb. If one has not being, other things are not.~...~‘
427 Intro| and therefore formless, being neither round nor straight,
428 Intro| therefore not one but two. This being premised, let us consider
429 Intro| impossible is coming into being in place, which implies
430 Intro| still is the coming into being either as a whole or parts
431 Intro| if not other by virtue of being one, not by virtue of itself;
432 Intro| affection which is other than being one would be more than one.
433 Intro| unlike itself or other. This being the case, neither can the
434 Intro| these are the only modes of being, one is not, and is not
435 Intro| one is, one partakes of being, which is not the same with
436 Intro| same with one; the words ‘being’ and ‘one’ have different
437 Intro| consequence: In the one of being or the being of one are
438 Intro| the one of being or the being of one are two parts, being
439 Intro| being of one are two parts, being and one, which form one
440 Intro| subdivided into one and being, and is therefore not one
441 Intro| abstraction we separate from being: will this abstract one
442 Intro| In the first place, the being of one is other than one;
443 Intro| other than one; and one and being, if different, are so because
444 Intro| therefore neither one nor being; and whether we take being
445 Intro| being; and whether we take being and other, or being and
446 Intro| take being and other, or being and one, or one and other,
447 Intro| every number partakes of being; therefore being has the
448 Intro| partakes of being; therefore being has the greatest number
449 Intro| were wrong in saying that being has the greatest number
450 Intro| greatest number of parts; for being is coequal and coextensive
451 Intro| broken up into parts by being is many and infinite. But
452 Intro| combination of the two, and being a whole includes all the
453 Intro| itself and in another. This being the case, the one is at
454 Intro| again contradicted by one being in another place from itself
455 Intro| place; this follows from one being in itself and in another;
456 Intro| one. And therefore, not being other than the one or related
457 Intro| sameness. One, then, as being other than others, and other
458 Intro| than others, and other as being other than one, are alike
459 Intro| relations. And everything as being other of everything is also
460 Intro| and since in virtue of being other than the others the
461 Intro| like them, in virtue of being the same it must be unlike.
462 Intro| and unlike. Thus, one, as being the same and not the same
463 Intro| contact. And the others, being other than one, have no
464 Intro| others (talla). Yet one, being in itself, must also be
465 Intro| if the one partakes of being. For ‘to be’ is the participation
466 Intro| is the participation of being in present time, ‘to have
467 Intro| more than one, and one, being the least of all numbers,
468 Intro| hand, one must come into being in a manner accordant with
469 Intro| contemporaneously with the end, being therefore younger, while
470 Intro| again, the one comes into being in each of the parts as
471 Intro| true of becoming as well as being? Thus much may be affirmed,
472 Intro| than others, has come into being a longer time than they
473 Intro| be a time at which one as being one partakes of being, and
474 Intro| as being one partakes of being, and a time when one as
475 Intro| and a time when one as not being one is deprived of being?
476 Intro| being one is deprived of being? But these two contradictory
477 Intro| destruction, into and from being and not-being, the one and
478 Intro| would be a part of many, and being itself one of them, of itself,
479 Intro| are other than one, and as being other than one are many
480 Intro| one. Yet the fact of their being parts furnishes the others
481 Intro| their own nature. And as being finite, they are alike;
482 Intro| they are alike; and as being infinite, they are alike;
483 Intro| they are alike; but as being both finite and also infinite,
484 Intro| therefore unlike them; and they being other than the one, are
485 Intro| therefore unlike them. But one, being unlike other, must be like
486 Intro| for that would suppose being in the one, and the others
487 Intro| the one which is not has being; for that which is true
488 Intro| if remitting aught of the being of non-existence, would
489 Intro| become existent. For not being implies the being of not-being,
490 Intro| For not being implies the being of not-being, and being
491 Intro| being of not-being, and being the not-being of not-being;
492 Intro| not-being; or more truly being partakes of the being of
493 Intro| truly being partakes of the being of being and not of the
494 Intro| partakes of the being of being and not of the being of
495 Intro| of being and not of the being of not-being, and not-being
496 Intro| not-being, and not-being of the being of not-being and not of
497 Intro| the one which is not has being and also not-being. And
498 Intro| not-being. And the union of being and not-being involves change
499 Intro| not’ implies negation of being:—do we mean by this to say
500 Intro| mean absolutely to deny being of it? The latter. Then