(...) Parmenides
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 501 Intro|         will have the appearance of being equal with the fractions.
 502 Intro|       arrested by the one. Thus all being is one at a distance, and
 503 Intro|             particles which compose being seem to be like and unlike,
 504 Intro|       consequence followed from one being affirmed to be equivalent
 505 Intro|     consequence is deduced from one being equivalent to the many.~
 506 Intro|          double notions, instead of being anomalies, are among the
 507 Intro|        involve each other, such as, being and not-being, one and many,
 508 Intro|            in them: (6) The idea of being or not-being is identified
 509 Intro|          motion or change: (9) One, being, time, like space in Zeno’
 510 Intro|            by him is also the same, being a criticism on received
 511 Intro|     doctrine of Ideas; secondly, of Being. From the Platonic Ideas
 512 Intro|       proceed to the Eleatic One or Being which is the foundation
 513 Intro|            the aboriginal notion of Being. No one can answer the questions
 514 Intro|             the Eleatic doctrine of Being, not intending to deny Ontology,
 515 Intro|          notion, and the very name ‘Being,’ is unable to maintain
 516 Intro|            did not mean to say that Being or Substance had no existence,
 517 Intro|            still have thought that ‘Being was,’ just as Kant would
 518 Intro|            of the Eleatic notion of Being, but also of the methods
 519 Intro|      objective side in the Sophist: Being and Not-being are no longer
 520 Intro|             the Eleatic doctrine of Being. Neither are absolutely
 521 Intro|        Socrates; the Eleatic One or Being is tried by the severer
 522 Intro|          The words ‘one,’ ‘other,’ ‘being,’ ‘like,’ ‘same,’ ‘whole,’
 523 Intro|             mind in which Unity and Being occupied the attention of
 524 Intro|            particular, ‘Unity’ and ‘Being,’ which had grown up in
 525 Intro|            One is one’ and ‘One has being’ have saved us from this
 526 Intro|            the notions of Unity and Being. These weeds of philosophy
 527 Intro|          doing so. About the Divine Being Himself, in whom all true
 528 Intro|          the assertion either that ‘Being is’ or that ‘Being is not,’
 529 Intro|            that ‘Being is’ or that ‘Being is not,’ by no means intends
 530 Text |             Do you maintain that if being is many, it must be both
 531 Text |              then according to you, being could not be many; for this
 532 Text |      purpose except to disprove the being of the many? and is not
 533 Text |       separate proof of this, there being in all as many proofs of
 534 Text |             their hypothesis of the being of many, if carried out,
 535 Text |          than the hypothesis of the being of one. Zeal for my master
 536 Text |         wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit
 537 Text |         whole idea is one, and yet, being one, is in each one of the
 538 Text |             so each idea instead of being one will be infinitely multiplied.~
 539 Text |     recognizes as attaching to all, being a single form or nature?~
 540 Text |            argues that these ideas, being such as we say they ought
 541 Text |            to each kind of absolute being?~Yes.~But the knowledge
 542 Text |           knowledge of each kind of being which we have?~Certainly.~
 543 Text |           by parity of reason they, being gods, are not our masters,
 544 Text |            on the hypothesis of the being of the many, but also what
 545 Text |            destruction, and even of being and not-being. In a word,
 546 Text |           supposition either of the being or of the not-being of one?~
 547 Text |           made up of parts; both as being a whole, and also as having
 548 Text |     straight nor round?~Right.~And, being of such a nature, it cannot
 549 Text |           Yes.~Then its coming into being in anything is still more
 550 Text |           anything which comes into being in anything, can neither
 551 Text |             while still coming into being, nor be altogether out of
 552 Text |              if already coming into being in it.~Certainly not.~And
 553 Text |       therefore whatever comes into being in another must have parts,
 554 Text |            not a whole, coming into being anywhere, since it cannot
 555 Text |           since it cannot come into being either as a part or as a
 556 Text |           somewhere and coming into being in something; nor again,
 557 Text |         True.~Then not by virtue of being one will it be other?~Certainly
 558 Text |             But if not by virtue of being one, not by virtue of itself;
 559 Text |          not itself, and itself not being other at all, will not be
 560 Text |        other affection than that of being one, it would be affected
 561 Text |          the one, as appears, never being affected otherwise, is never
 562 Text |          other?~Plainly not.~Again, being of this nature, it can neither
 563 Text |             true.~How then can one, being of this nature, be either
 564 Text |          Clearly not.~Then the one, being of this nature, cannot be
 565 Text |           any modes of partaking of being other than these?~There
 566 Text |          cannot possibly partake of being?~That is the inference.~
 567 Text |           if it were and partook of being, it would already be; but
 568 Text |          one be, and not partake of being?~Impossible.~Then the one
 569 Text |              Then the one will have being, but its being will not
 570 Text |            will have being, but its being will not be the same with
 571 Text |           same, it would not be the being of the one; nor would the
 572 Text |            one have participated in being, for the proposition that
 573 Text |         right.~We mean to say, that being has not the same significance
 574 Text |             to saying, ‘partakes of being’?~Quite true.~Once more
 575 Text |             How so?~In this way:—If being is predicated of the one,
 576 Text |           if the one is, and one of being, if being is one; and if
 577 Text |            is, and one of being, if being is one; and if being and
 578 Text |             if being is one; and if being and one are not the same;
 579 Text |         have for its parts, one and being?~Certainly.~And is each
 580 Text |         each of these parts—one and being—to be simply called a part,
 581 Text |            the one, if it is—I mean being and one—does either fail
 582 Text |        other? is the one wanting to being, or being to the one?~Impossible.~
 583 Text |            one wanting to being, or being to the one?~Impossible.~
 584 Text |            has in turn both one and being, and is at the least made
 585 Text |         always these two parts; for being always involves one, and
 586 Text |        always involves one, and one being; so that one is always disappearing,
 587 Text |            that the one partakes of being and therefore it is?~Yes.~
 588 Text |             way, the one, if it has being, has turned out to be many?~
 589 Text |              as we say, partakes of being, and try to imagine it apart
 590 Text |            Let us see:—Must not the being of one be other than one?
 591 Text |             one? for the one is not being, but, considered as one,
 592 Text |             as one, only partook of being?~Certainly.~If being and
 593 Text |             of being?~Certainly.~If being and the one be two different
 594 Text |           one that it is other than being; nor because being is being
 595 Text |             than being; nor because being is being that it is other
 596 Text |         being; nor because being is being that it is other than the
 597 Text |         either with the one or with being?~Certainly not.~And therefore
 598 Text |           therefore whether we take being and the other, or being
 599 Text |             being and the other, or being and the one, or the one
 600 Text |           this way—you may speak of being?~Yes.~And also of one?~Yes.~
 601 Text |           Well, and when I speak of being and one, I speak of them
 602 Text |        Certainly.~And if I speak of being and the other, or of the
 603 Text |            infinite multiplicity of being; for number is infinite
 604 Text |  multiplicity, and partakes also of being: am I not right?~Certainly.~
 605 Text |          all number participates in being, every part of number will
 606 Text |         also participate?~Yes.~Then being is distributed over the
 607 Text |         that which is, be devoid of being?~In no way.~And it is divided
 608 Text |         into the smallest, and into being of all sizes, and is broken
 609 Text |            these which is a part of being, and yet no part?~Impossible.~
 610 Text |             to every single part of being, and does not fail in any
 611 Text |       present with all the parts of being, unless divided.~True.~And
 612 Text |            in saying just now, that being was distributed into the
 613 Text |             one is never wanting to being, or being to the one, but
 614 Text |          never wanting to being, or being to the one, but being two
 615 Text |            or being to the one, but being two they are co-equal and
 616 Text |             broken up into parts by being, is many and infinite?~True.~
 617 Text |          not only the one which has being is many, but the one itself
 618 Text |           one itself distributed by being, must also be many?~Certainly.~
 619 Text |              Then the one if it has being is one and many, whole and
 620 Text |            it would be nothing; but being a whole, and not being in
 621 Text |          but being a whole, and not being in itself, it must be in
 622 Text |            another, but regarded as being all its parts, is in itself;
 623 Text |            Certainly.~The one then, being of this nature, is of necessity
 624 Text |          since it is in itself, for being in one, and not passing
 625 Text |          motion?~True.~Then the one being always itself in itself
 626 Text |          they not altogether escape being other than one another?~
 627 Text |          shall we say that the one, being in this relation to the
 628 Text |           others is the opposite of being other than the others?~Certainly.~
 629 Text |         affected otherwise, and not being affected otherwise is not
 630 Text |    otherwise is not unlike, and not being unlike, is like; but in
 631 Text |          other it is otherwise, and being otherwise affected is unlike.~
 632 Text |              And in the same way as being other than itself and the
 633 Text |             not say that the others being other than the one are not
 634 Text |            other in virtue of their being the one and the others;
 635 Text |             if in addition to their being what they are they had equality,
 636 Text |           any power of exceeding or being exceeded in relation to
 637 Text |         must be on an equality; and being on an equality, must be
 638 Text |        Clearly so.~And yet the one, being itself in itself, will also
 639 Text |         which it is less.~True.~And being greater and less than itself,
 640 Text |         also of parts?~It will.~And being of equal parts with itself,
 641 Text |    numerically equal to itself; and being of more parts, more, and
 642 Text |            of more parts, more, and being of less, less than itself?~
 643 Text |             do you mean?~If one is, being must be predicated of it?~
 644 Text |            is only participation of being in present time, and to
 645 Text |             is the participation of being at a past time, and to be
 646 Text |             is the participation of being at a future time?~Very true.~
 647 Text |           one, since it partakes of being, partakes of time?~Certainly.~
 648 Text |         with the one during all its being; for whenever it is it is
 649 Text |             one, then, becoming and being the same time with itself,
 650 Text |           is the first to come into being; but all other things have
 651 Text |            things have also number, being plural and not singular.~
 652 Text |              And since it came into being first it must be supposed
 653 Text |          supposed to have come into being prior to the others, and
 654 Text |          the things which came into being later, are younger than
 655 Text |          Can the one have come into being contrary to its own nature,
 656 Text |            other things, comes into being first of all; and after
 657 Text |            a nature as to come into being with the last; and, since
 658 Text |            the one cannot come into being except in accordance with
 659 Text |            that it should come into being after the others, simultaneously
 660 Text |            be a part and not parts, being a part, be also of necessity
 661 Text |          will not the one come into being together with each part—
 662 Text |           part when that comes into being, and together with the second
 663 Text |             say? Shall we say as of being so also of becoming, or
 664 Text |           the others, has come into being a longer time than the others.~
 665 Text |            less than formerly, from being older will become younger
 666 Text |          one because they came into being later; and in the same way
 667 Text |             as that which came into being earlier and that which came
 668 Text |            and that which came into being later must continually differ
 669 Text |            one, at times partake of being, and in as far as it is
 670 Text |             at times not partake of being?~Certainly.~But can it partake
 671 Text |    Certainly.~But can it partake of being when not partaking of being,
 672 Text |         being when not partaking of being, or not partake of being
 673 Text |            being, or not partake of being when partaking of being?~
 674 Text |             being when partaking of being?~Impossible.~Then the one
 675 Text |             and does not partake of being at different times, for
 676 Text |            time at which it assumes being and relinquishes being—for
 677 Text |      assumes being and relinquishes being—for how can it have and
 678 Text |     Impossible.~And the assuming of being is what you would call becoming?~
 679 Text |            And the relinquishing of being you would call destruction?~
 680 Text |             by taking and giving up being.~Certainly.~And being one
 681 Text |            up being.~Certainly.~And being one and many and in process
 682 Text |             process of becoming and being destroyed, when it becomes
 683 Text |           equalized?~True.~And when being in motion it rests, and
 684 Text |           motion it rests, and when being at rest it changes to motion,
 685 Text |        between rest and motion, not being in any time; and into this
 686 Text |        changes, when it passes from being into cessation of being,
 687 Text |             being into cessation of being, or from not-being into
 688 Text |             the one, if the one has being.~Of course.~1.aa. But if
 689 Text |       anything were a part of many, being itself one of them, it will
 690 Text |            one of the many; and not being a part of any one, it cannot
 691 Text |              which we call a whole, being one perfect unity framed
 692 Text |           state of becoming, nor of being destroyed, nor greater,
 693 Text |         whether he predicate of one being or not-being, for that which
 694 Text |           just now mentioned.~True.~Being, then, cannot be ascribed
 695 Text |          the others, for the others being different from the one will
 696 Text |         equality; but if one has no being, then it can neither be
 697 Text |         surely in a sort partake of being?~How so?~It must be so,
 698 Text |             relinquish something of being, so as to become not-being,
 699 Text |      maintain itself, must have the being of not-being as the bond
 700 Text |          bond of not-being, just as being must have as a bond the
 701 Text |            order to perfect its own being; for the truest assertion
 702 Text |             truest assertion of the being of being and of the not-being
 703 Text |           assertion of the being of being and of the not-being of
 704 Text |      not-being of not-being is when being partakes of the being of
 705 Text |          when being partakes of the being of being, and not of the
 706 Text |            partakes of the being of being, and not of the being of
 707 Text |            of being, and not of the being of not-being—that is, the
 708 Text |          that is, the perfection of being; and when not-being does
 709 Text |             of not-being but of the being of not-being—that is the
 710 Text |       not-being, and what is not of being, must not the one also partake
 711 Text |             the one also partake of being in order not to be?~Certainly.~
 712 Text |           if it is not, clearly has being?~Clearly.~And has not-being
 713 Text |             because it changes from being to not-being?~That appears
 714 Text |         another?~Yes.~Then the one, being moved, is altered?~Yes.~
 715 Text |       altered can neither come into being nor be destroyed?~Very true.~
 716 Text |            And the one that is not, being altered, becomes and is
 717 Text |           and is destroyed; and not being altered, neither becomes
 718 Text |             not’ signify absence of being in that to which we apply
 719 Text |            or kind participation of being?~Quite absolutely.~Then,
 720 Text |           in any way participate in being?~It cannot.~And did we not
 721 Text |           not mean by becoming, and being destroyed, the assumption
 722 Text |        destroyed, the assumption of being and the loss of being?~Nothing
 723 Text |            of being and the loss of being?~Nothing else.~And can that
 724 Text |             has no participation in being, either assume or lose being?~
 725 Text |        being, either assume or lose being?~Impossible.~The one then,
 726 Text |       cannot have or lose or assume being in any way?~True.~Then the
 727 Text |            it in no way partakes of being, neither perishes nor becomes?~
 728 Text |           been, it would partake of being?~That is clear.~And therefore
 729 Text |          other than one another, as being plural and not singular;
 730 Text |             as in a dream, and from being the smallest becomes very
 731 Text |        appearing to be one, but not being one, if one is not?~True.~
 732 Text |          not.~Very true.~And so all being, whatever we think of, must
 733 Text |          unity?~Certainly.~And such being when seen indistinctly and
 734 Text |           of rest, and becoming and being destroyed, and in neither


Phaedo
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 735 Intro|           animals from one state of being to another (the chrysalis
 736 Intro|           to have the reputation of being one, when men have passed
 737 Intro|            a great man, so far from being immortal, is really limited
 738 Intro|             And in another state of being is the soul to be conceived
 739 Intro|  extinguished? Or is there a hidden being which is allied to the Author
 740 Intro|          must admit that the Divine Being, although perfect himself,
 741 Intro|            the duration of a living being in countless ages we can
 742 Intro|            them in another state of being. Most persons when the last
 743 Intro|          rewarded. It is capable of being indefinitely diminished;
 744 Intro|          material things. The human being alone has the consciousness
 745 Intro|        minds the ideal of a perfect Being; when we see how the human
 746 Intro|           thesis, that ‘thought and being are the same.’ The Eastern
 747 Intro|            shed in another state of being was crying against them,
 748 Intro|      individual soul to the eternal being of the absolute soul. There
 749 Intro|             reasserting the Eleatic being ‘divided by the Pythagorean
 750 Intro|         soul after another state of being. Like the Oriental or Christian
 751 Intro|            the probability of death being a long sleep is not excluded.
 752 Text |           had a singular feeling at being in his company. For I could
 753 Text |      popular sense of the word, and being under sentence of death,
 754 Text |          but is aspiring after true being?~Certainly.~And in this
 755 Text |            of the whole body, these being in his opinion distracting
 756 Text |        attain the knowledge of true being?~What you say has a wonderful
 757 Text |            in the search after true being: it fills us full of loves,
 758 Text |             of pleasure consists in being conquered by pleasure. And
 759 Text |           must become greater after being less.~True.~And that which
 760 Text |         thing which he sees aims at being some other thing, but falls
 761 Text |           and in coming to life and being born can be born only from
 762 Text |            naturally capable, as of being compounded, so also of being
 763 Text |        being compounded, so also of being dissolved; but that which
 764 Text |           from her erring ways, and being in communion with the unchanging
 765 Text |        divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and
 766 Text |            maintains that the soul, being the harmony of the elements
 767 Text |         more lasting than the body, being of opinion that in all such
 768 Text |        diviner thing than the body, being as she is in the form of
 769 Text |             harmonized, and herself being a harmony has another harmony
 770 Text |          harmony.~Then one soul not being more or less absolutely
 771 Text |            vice; because a harmony, being absolutely a harmony, has
 772 Text |         acknowledged that the soul, being a harmony, can never utter
 773 Text |             is a harmony capable of being led by the affections of
 774 Text |         must find out what state of being or doing or suffering was
 775 Text |           and the necessity of this being so, and then he would teach
 776 Text |          any other account of their being as they are, except that
 777 Text |         admit the small or admit of being exceeded: instead of this,
 778 Text |            anything else which, not being the idea, exists only in
 779 Text |         number—each of them without being oddness is odd, and in the
 780 Text |          every number even, without being evenness. Do you agree?~
 781 Text |          said; for if the immortal, being eternal, is liable to perish,
 782 Text |          equipoise. For that which, being in equipoise, is in the
 783 Text |        grieved when he sees my body being burned or buried. I would
 784 Text |            a father of whom we were being bereaved, and we were about


Phaedrus
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 785 Intro|          more complex and wonderful being than the serpent Typho.
 786 Intro|            if he were not afraid of being thought mad he would fall
 787 Intro|         they can reproach Lysias in being a writer; but there may
 788 Intro|            there may be disgrace in being a bad one.~And what is good
 789 Intro|              The real art is always being confused by rhetoricians
 790 Intro|           and of the Eleatic one or being; the Gorgias between the
 791 Intro|          the impossibility of woman being the intellectual helpmate
 792 Intro|             argue, ‘that a rational being should not follow the dictates
 793 Intro|        reunited in another state of being, in which they saw justice
 794 Intro|   reminiscence of a former state of being, in his elevation of the
 795 Intro|             no order in the topics (being in these respects far inferior
 796 Intro|           semblance of an organized being ‘having hands and feet and
 797 Intro|        which many ‘practise without being able to say who were their
 798 Text |          about a fair youth who was being tempted, but not by a lover;
 799 Text |           in the summer is far from being unpleasant.~SOCRATES: Lead
 800 Text |        neighbouring rocks; and this being the manner of her death,
 801 Text |            What an incomprehensible being you are, Socrates: when
 802 Text |           or excuses to invent; and being well rid of all these evils,
 803 Text |            will have more reason in being afraid of the lover, for
 804 Text |          but also future advantage, being not mastered by love, but
 805 Text |            therefore he cannot help being jealous, and will debar
 806 Text |          man is sober, and, besides being intolerable, are published
 807 Text |       morose, envious, disagreeable being, hurtful to his estate,
 808 Text |             the lover is accused of being deficient. And now I will
 809 Text |            The soul through all her being is immortal, for that which
 810 Text |           has the care of inanimate being everywhere, and traverses
 811 Text |        theme. There abides the very being with which true knowledge
 812 Text |            The divine intelligence, being nurtured upon mind and pure
 813 Text |           difficulty beholding true being; while another only rises
 814 Text |            they all follow, but not being strong enough they are carried
 815 Text |            to the mysteries of true being, go away, and feed upon
 816 Text |           of that which we now call being she raised her head up towards
 817 Text |            head up towards the true being. And therefore the mind
 818 Text |       aright these memories is ever being initiated into perfect mysteries
 819 Text |           way of nature beheld true being; this was the condition
 820 Text |           privilege of beauty, that being the loveliest she is also
 821 Text |            namesake, and instead of being awed at the sight of her,
 822 Text |            if he were not afraid of being thought a downright madman,
 823 Text |            germ of the wing; which, being shut up with the emotion,
 824 Text |            pretence but in reality, being also himself of a nature
 825 Text |          would reproach Lysias with being an author?~PHAEDRUS: Not
 826 Text |          horse, puts good for evil, being himself as ignorant of their
 827 Text |              SOCRATES: He then, who being ignorant of the truth aims
 828 Text |              as the body which from being one becomes double and may
 829 Text |           power it has of acting or being acted upon in relation to
 830 Text |             that power of acting or being acted upon which makes each
 831 Text |            forth the nature of that being to which he addresses his
 832 Text |           his legitimate offspring;—being, in the first place, the


Philebus
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 833 Intro|       doctrine stood to the Eleatic Being or the Megarian good, or
 834 Intro|          unity, such as the Eleatic Being, can be broken up into a
 835 Intro|    intensified the nature of one or Being, by the thoughts of successive
 836 Intro|            could no longer imagine ‘Being’ as in a state of change
 837 Intro|   mysterious to him; but instead of being illustrated by sense, the
 838 Intro|           and which in the scale of being is farthest removed from
 839 Intro|            body are more capable of being defined than any other pleasures.
 840 Intro|     generation. This is relative to Being or Essence, and from one
 841 Intro|           contrast with the Eleatic Being; from another, as the transient
 842 Intro|            use his own language, of being a ‘tyro in dialectics,’
 843 Intro|           scarcely perceived by us, being almost done away with by
 844 Intro|          then have been regarded as being the expression of ideas.
 845 Intro|             of opinions is far from being impossible. Plato’s omission
 846 Intro|           latter is more capable of being reduced to measure.~The
 847 Intro|           is the science of eternal Being, apprehended by the purest
 848 Intro|         absolute and unapproachable being. But this being is manifested
 849 Intro|      unapproachable being. But this being is manifested in symmetry
 850 Intro|          find a truth beyond either Being or number; setting up his
 851 Intro|          and false? In the sense of being real, both must be admitted
 852 Intro|        dialectic, or the science of being, which will forget and disown
 853 Intro|      pleasures partake of truth and Being?’ To these ancient speculations
 854 Intro|           degree, and is capable of being greatly fostered and strengthened.
 855 Intro|           strengthened. So far from being inconsistent with religion,
 856 Intro|           But this is very far from being coextensive with right.
 857 Intro|             we can form of a divine being is that of a despot acting
 858 Intro|            law of every intelligent being.’ This view is noble and
 859 Intro|            principles of ethics, in being too abstract. For there
 860 Intro|             determined; the Eleatic Being and the Heraclitean Flux
 861 Text |          are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that
 862 Text |          how each individual unity, being always the same, and incapable
 863 Text |             does he spare; no human being who has ears is safe from
 864 Text |          something ridiculous in my being unable to answer, and therefore
 865 Text |          never any end of them, and being endless they must also be
 866 Text |             any offspring of these, being a birth into true being,
 867 Text |             being a birth into true being, effected by the measure
 868 Text |         everything which comes into being, of necessity come into
 869 Text |              of necessity come into being through a cause?~PROTARCHUS:
 870 Text |           them to be, the pleasures being unalloyed with pain and
 871 Text |     sometimes not to be desired, as being not in themselves good,
 872 Text |           principle in every living being have their origin in the
 873 Text |          SOCRATES: I am speaking of being emptied and replenished,
 874 Text |             one time a sure hope of being filled, and at other times
 875 Text |            empty and has no hope of being filled, there will be the
 876 Text |           not say that the opinion, being erroneous, is not right
 877 Text |           we not say that the good, being friends of the gods, have
 878 Text |           they are two only—the one being a state of pain, which is
 879 Text |         generation, and has no true being? Do not certain ingenious
 880 Text |            or for the sake of, some being or essence, and that the
 881 Text |            SOCRATES: Then pleasure, being a generation, must surely
 882 Text |            SOCRATES: Then pleasure, being a generation, will be rightly
 883 Text |    generation only, and had no true being at all; for he is clearly
 884 Text |           at the notion of pleasure being a good.~PROTARCHUS: Assuredly.~
 885 Text |            further absurdity in our being compelled to say that he
 886 Text |      knowledge which has to do with being and reality, and sameness
 887 Text |        labouring, not after eternal being, but about things which
 888 Text |           the contemplation of true being?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
 889 Text |      respect?~SOCRATES: In that the being who possesses good always
 890 Text |         mixture, and the mixture as being good by reason of the infusion
 891 Text |          defined by us as painless, being the pure pleasures of the


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 892 Text |      whether this art is capable of being taught, and yet I know not
 893 Text |         which they think capable of being taught and learned. And
 894 Text |            was the guardian; and he being in fact under the apprehension
 895 Text |            did Epimetheus, who, not being very wise, forgot that he
 896 Text |             or to prevent them from being what they are; they do but
 897 Text |           that virtue is capable of being taught. This is the notion
 898 Text |             virtue to be capable of being taught and acquired.~There
 899 Text |             think virtue capable of being taught and cultivated both
 900 Text |          able to understand what is being said to him: he cannot say
 901 Text |            from one another only in being larger or smaller?~I should
 902 Text |            your opinion, Prodicus, ‘being’ is the same as ‘becoming.’~
 903 Text |        Prodicus would maintain that being, Protagoras, is not the
 904 Text |           and that no one speaks of being ‘awfully’ healthy or wealthy,
 905 Text |      blessing; ‘but man cannot help being bad when the force of circumstances
 906 Text |         virtue, then he cannot help being bad. And you, Pittacus,
 907 Text |           will allow that any human being errs voluntarily, or voluntarily
 908 Text |            function, no one of them being like any other of them?
 909 Text |             the most confident, and being the most confident are also
 910 Text |          affection which they call ‘being overcome by pleasure,’ and
 911 Text |           soul is not to be called ‘being overcome by pleasure,’ pray,
 912 Text |          way of speaking, is termed being overcome by pleasure? I
 913 Text |             when you speak of goods being painful, do you not mean
 914 Text |         deny. And when you speak of being overcome—‘what do you mean,’
 915 Text |              what is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure if
 916 Text |        therefore, is the meaning of being overcome by pleasure; —ignorance,
 917 Text |          having a false opinion and being deceived about important
 918 Text |           that virtue is capable of being taught. Protagoras, on the
 919 Text |          must be quite incapable of being taught.’ Now I, Protagoras,
 920 Text |       virtue is, whether capable of being taught or not, lest haply


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 921 1    |          age were the cause, I too, being old, and every other old
 922 1    |             that which he inherited being much what I possess now;
 923 1    |            ruler, is unerring, and, being unerring, always commands
 924 1    |              as you were saying, he being the superior, it is just
 925 1    |              which is very far from being their own. Consider further,
 926 1    |          say, the true rulers, like being in authority. ~Think! Nay,
 927 1    |            name of thieves. And not being ambitious they do not care
 928 1    |    recounting all the advantages of being just, and he answers and
 929 2    |             experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and
 930 2    |           retaliation; and justice, being at a middle point between
 931 2    |          thus to the hour of death; being just and seeming to be unjust.
 932 2    |      weakness, has not the power of being unjust. And this is proved
 933 2    |           something truly divine in being able to argue as you have
 934 2    |        there would be an impiety in being present when justice is
 935 2    |          mistake, hirelings, "hire" being the name which is given
 936 2    |           at which the character is being formed and the desired impression
 937 2    |        taking her part when she was being beaten, and all the battles
 938 2    |            they were the better for being punished; but that those
 939 2    |   punishment from God; but that God being good is the author of evil
 940 2    |          ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest
 941 2    |           saying that deception, or being deceived or uninformed about
 942 2    |           that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy,
 943 3    |            sort, that those who are being educated by us to be the
 944 3    |          them deem that he himself, being but a man, can be dishonored
 945 3    |             wickednesses are always being perpetrated by ~"The kindred
 946 3    |        sweet and holy and wonderful being; but we must also inform
 947 3    |         true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive
 948 3    |             and medicine are always being opened; and the arts of
 949 3    |            diseases. But Herodicus, being a trainer, and himself of
 950 3    |             to spend in continually being ill. This we remark in the
 951 3    |          always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant
 952 3    |            art only to persons who, being generally of healthy constitution
 953 3    |     nourishment, and his senses not being purged of their mists? ~
 954 3    |             all that time they were being formed and fed in the womb
 955 3    |           up; and so, their country being their mother and also their
 956 3    |         taken that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens,
 957 3    |          other citizens; hating and being hated, plotting and being
 958 3    |           being hated, plotting and being plotted against, they will
 959 4    |        scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more
 960 4    |          That is most certain. ~And being perfect, is therefore wise
 961 4    |    describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? ~Very true. ~
 962 4    |            itself, the whole State, being thus constituted according
 963 4    |             in the saying of "a man being his own master;" and other
 964 4    |      Undoubtedly. ~And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves,
 965 4    |             s own business, and not being a busybody; we said so again
 966 4    |         doing his own work, and not being a busybody, would claim
 967 4    |        object of desire, and thirst being a desire, will necessarily
 968 4    |             commands; that part too being supposed to have a knowledge
 969 4    |      business, whether in ruling or being ruled? ~Exactly so. ~Are
 970 4    |         such as we were describing, being concerned, however, not
 971 4    |      meaning of acting unjustly and being unjust, or, again, of acting
 972 4    |            like disease and health; being in the soul just what disease
 973 4    |         vice are innumerable; there being four special ones which
 974 5    |            if they are carried out, being unusual, may appear ridiculous. ~
 975 5    |          embryo which may come into being from seeing the light; and
 976 5    |        friend and of another as not being his friend? ~Yes, very often. ~
 977 5    |             of the rest of the city being divided either against them
 978 5    |           in the flower of his age, being not only a tribute of honor
 979 5    |          will be described by us as being at war when they fight,
 980 5    |          disorder and discord, they being by nature friends; and such
 981 5    |           the possibility of a city being ordered in the manner described? ~
 982 5    |            will find many a strange being will have a title to the
 983 5    |       points of view, that absolute being is or may be absolutely
 984 5    |           intermediate between pure being and the absolute negation
 985 5    |            the absolute negation of being? ~Yes, between them. ~And,
 986 5    |           knowledge corresponded to being and ignorance of necessity
 987 5    |           that intermediate between being and not-being there has
 988 5    |          opinion? ~Undoubtedly. ~As being the same with knowledge,
 989 5    |            knowledge is relative to being and knows being. But before
 990 5    |         relative to being and knows being. But before I proceed further
 991 5    |              how can any reasonable being ever identify that which
 992 5    | subject-matters? ~That is certain. ~Being is the sphere or subject-matter
 993 5    |            is to know the nature of being? ~Yes. ~And opinion is to
 994 5    |        cannot be the same. ~Then if being is the subject-matter of
 995 5    |           necessary correlative; of being, knowledge? ~True, he said. ~
 996 5    |           not concerned either with being or with not-being? ~Not
 997 5    |           the interval between pure being and absolute not-being;
 998 5    |            equally of the nature of being and not-being, and cannot
 999 5    |           of the mean. ~True. ~This being premised, I would ask the
1000 5    |             in your mind, either as being or not-being, or both, or