(...) The Republic
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1001 5    |           better place than between being and not-being? For they
1002 5    |            light and existence than being. ~That is quite true, he
1003 5    |             is halfway between pure being and pure not-being? ~We
1004 5    |             as matter of knowledge; being the intermediate flux which
1005 6    |           the knowledge of the true being of each thing, and who have
1006 6    |             are others who, besides being their equals in experience
1007 6    |         they are lovers of all true being; there is no part whether
1008 6    |       spontaneously toward the true being of everything. ~Certainly. ~
1009 6    |            perfect participation of being? ~They are absolutely necessary,
1010 6    |      becoming incorporate with very being, having begotten mind and
1011 6    |        praise some things which are being said or done, and blame
1012 6    |           be rare at any time; this being the class out of which come
1013 6    |         philosophy; those who do so being probably the cleverest hands
1014 6    |          natural unity. But a human being who in word and work is
1015 6    |             mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look
1016 6    |             is a lover of truth and being? ~They would not be so unreasonable. ~
1017 6    |  unreasonable. ~Or that his nature, being such as we have delineated,
1018 6    |            when they have come into being will anyone say that they
1019 6    |             sort of thing which was being said, and then the argument
1020 6    |        nature there is no seeing or being seen? ~How do you mean? ~
1021 6    |             How do you mean? ~Sight being, as I conceive, in the eyes,
1022 6    |          eyes wanting to see; color being also present in them, still
1023 6    |             that on which truth and being shine, the soul perceives
1024 6    |          things known, but of their being and essence, and yet the
1025 6    |           to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic
1026 6    |   understanding, and not reason, as being intermediate between opinion
1027 7    |           can only see before them, being prevented by the chains
1028 7    |            of the objects which are being carried in like manner they
1029 7    |            is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned toward
1030 7    |            the things which are now being shown to him? ~True, he
1031 7    |          his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other;
1032 7    |            of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to
1033 7    |      degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and
1034 7    |           the brightest and best of being, or, in other words, of
1035 7    |         would rather not have them. Being self-taught, they cannot
1036 7    |            night to the true day of being, that is, the ascent from
1037 7    |           the soul from becoming to being? And another consideration
1038 7    |             to draw the soul toward being. ~Will you explain your
1039 7    |           nothing to attract toward being; but when there is some
1040 7    |           the contemplation of true being. ~And surely, he said, this
1041 7    |               Yes, I said; and this being true of one must be equally
1042 7    |         change and lay hold of true being, and therefore he must be
1043 7    |          from becoming to truth and being. ~That is excellent, he
1044 7    |           is the full perfection of being, which she ought, by all
1045 7    |         geometry compels us to view being, it concerns us; if becoming
1046 7    |          knowledge only which is of being and of the unseen can make
1047 7    |          like-they only dream about being, but never can they behold
1048 7    |      perception of shadows, opinion being concerned with becoming,
1049 7    |        becoming, and intellect with being; and so to make a proportion: ~"
1050 7    |             make a proportion: ~"As being is to becoming, so is pure
1051 7    |      ignorance, and has no shame at being detected? ~To be sure. ~
1052 7    |    individual a friend, of one who, being defective in some part of
1053 7    |             one another and to true being. ~Yes, he said, that is
1054 7    |            truth to attain absolute being: And here, my friend, great
1055 7    |      desires? ~He cannot. ~And from being a keeper of the law he is
1056 7    |        constitution might come into being. Enough, then, of the perfect
1057 8    |           inferior sort of natures, being the contentious and ambitious,
1058 8    |           100 = 4900), each of them being less by one (than the perfect
1059 8    |             Clearly, the new State, being in a mean between oligarchy
1060 8    |     government-how did he come into being, and what is he like? ~I
1061 8    |          how does the son come into being? ~The character of the son
1062 8    |   passionate and appetitive; and he being not originally of a bad
1063 8    |             he is no longer a part, being neither trader, nor artisan,
1064 8    |              What then? ~The rulers being aware that their power rests
1065 8    |           then democracy comes into being after the poor have conquered
1066 8    |           be the fairest of States, being like an embroidered robe
1067 8    |         patterns enough. ~And there being no necessity, I said, for
1068 8    |           you are so disposed-there being no necessity also, because
1069 8    |            State, how he comes into being. ~Very good, he said. ~Is
1070 8    |            not of the getting sort, being those which are called unnecessary? ~
1071 8    |           in their power and who is being initiated by them in great
1072 8    |     overmasters democracy-the truth being that the excessive increase
1073 8    |           which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are
1074 8    |       another class which is always being severed from the mass. ~
1075 8    |     plotting against the people and being friends of oligarchy? True. ~
1076 8    |             of his enemies, or from being a man become a wolf-that
1077 8    |      wealthy and is also accused of being an enemy of the people sees
1078 8    |           cast in his teeth what is being done. ~Yes, that may be
1079 8    |            I said, the tragic poets being wise men will forgive us
1080 8    |             whom he has derived his being, will maintain him and his
1081 8    |       father did not bring him into being, or settle him in life,
1082 9    |         father's meanness. At last, being a better man than his corruptors,
1083 9    |        sense of the word comes into being when, either under the influence
1084 9    |            away their rights, so he being younger will claim to have
1085 9    |           in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him
1086 9    |           true. ~And this is he who being by nature most of a tyrant
1087 9    |           the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. ~From what
1088 9    |         tyrant will be bound-he who being by nature such as we have
1089 9    |             and that this is he who being the greatest tyrant of himself
1090 9    |            in the knowledge of true being is known to the philosopher
1091 9    |             that when they are only being drawn toward the painful
1092 9    |           purer, he replied, is the being of that which is concerned
1093 9    |           if there be a pleasure in being filled with that which is
1094 9    |        really filled with more real being will more really and truly
1095 9    |           participates in less real being will be less truly and surely
1096 9    |         they truly filled with true being, nor do they taste of pure
1097 9    |  remorselessly sells his own divine being to that which is most godless
1098 9    |      trampled in the mire, and from being a lion to become a monkey? ~
1099 9    |             reason. ~And therefore, being desirous of placing him
1100 10   |           and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums,
1101 10   |        knows, by talking to him and being compelled to hear what he
1102 10   |             have right opinion from being compelled to associate with
1103 10   |          wise and calm temperament, being always nearly equable, is
1104 10   |          imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature
1105 10   |          and he is also like him in being concerned with an inferior
1106 10   |          because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon, is now
1107 10   |          are well aware that poetry being such as we have described
1108 10   |              And should an immortal being seriously think of this
1109 10   |            this; but that the body, being one thing, can be destroyed
1110 10   |         consequence of these things being done to the body; but that
1111 10   |             her dwelling-place from being a house of death. ~True,
1112 10   |            said. ~The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal,
1113 10   |             in a hundred years-such being reckoned to be the length
1114 10   |             s life, and the penalty being thus paid ten times in a
1115 10   |          crimes, and that they were being taken away to be cast into
1116 10   |          return to this, instead of being rough and underground, would


The Second Alcibiades
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1117 Pre  |            claim the distinction of being, among all Greek or Roman
1118 Text |            a victory. The Athenians being annoyed and perplexed how


The Seventh Letter
     Part
1119 Text |           my first visit to Sicily, being then about forty years old,
1120 Text |           The existing constitution being generally condemned, a revolution
1121 Text |       Peiraeus-each of these bodies being in charge of the market
1122 Text |         written and unwritten, were being altered for the worse, and
1123 Text |             of affairs and saw them being swept in all directions
1124 Text |          himself. Indeed, he saw it being actually implanted in other
1125 Text |             while the government is being carried on methodically
1126 Text |             that time his intention being that Dionysios, when his
1127 Text |         those who brought them into being. This ignorance it was which
1128 Text |         those who have for the time being gained the upper hand, when
1129 Text |              and that the steps now being taken were quite at variance
1130 Text |         manufactured or coming into being in the course of nature,
1131 Text |             things, to every living being, to character in souls,
1132 Text |        things now called round from being called straight, and the
1133 Text |         things, that which has real being, and that which is only
1134 Text |           refutation by the senses, being merely the thing presented
1135 Text |             about all that has real being. After much effort, as names,
1136 Text |        trading ships and sail away, being indignant and thinking it
1137 Text |             to get hold of him, and being unable to do so, sent for
1138 Text |     Dionysios-our ground for action being the breach of faith to a
1139 Text |            am hardly of the age for being comrade in arms to anyone;
1140 Text |      getting together conspirators, being all the while a poor creature,
1141 Text |           fault, if he complains of being poor. The same is true if
1142 Text |           few among the many-or if, being in charge the affairs of


The Sophist
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1143 Intro|            the Hegelian identity of Being and Not-being. Nor will
1144 Intro|            comprehend the nature of Being. The friends of ideas (Soph.)
1145 Intro|           kinds, and not merely one Being or Good having different
1146 Intro|      Not-being’ to be the other of ‘Being.’ Transferring this to language
1147 Intro|             But he is speaking of a being as imaginary as the wise
1148 Intro|             and were not capable of being comprehended in a single
1149 Intro|           while the absoluteness of Being was asserted in every form
1150 Intro|             in the contemplation of Being, asked no more questions,
1151 Intro|          applying the categories of Being or Not-being to mind or
1152 Intro|             would have replied that Being is alone true. But mankind
1153 Intro|         once admit the existence of Being and Not-being, as two spheres
1154 Intro|        which exclude each other, no Being or reality can be ascribed
1155 Intro|           Not-being is the other of Being, and has as many kinds as
1156 Intro|            there are differences in Being. This doctrine is the simple
1157 Intro|         unfolding or determining of Being, and is a necessary element
1158 Intro|             Plato does not identify Being with Not-being; he has no
1159 Intro|       Not-being, as the negative of Being; although he again and again
1160 Intro|           Not-being as one class of Being, and yet as coextensive
1161 Intro|             yet as coextensive with Being in general. Before analyzing
1162 Intro|            of this, having ideas of Being, Sameness, and the like.
1163 Intro|           passionate:—What! has not Being mind? and is not Being capable
1164 Intro|          not Being mind? and is not Being capable of being known?
1165 Intro|             is not Being capable of being known? and, if this is admitted,
1166 Intro|           admitted, then capable of being affected or acted upon?—
1167 Intro|          opposite determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty
1168 Intro|             to the difficulty about Being may be equally the answer
1169 Intro|        Not-being and seemed to lose Being, and now in the hunt after
1170 Intro|           and now in the hunt after Being we recover both. Not-being
1171 Intro|              Not-being is a kind of Being, and in a sense co-extensive
1172 Intro|             sense co-extensive with Being. And there are as many divisions
1173 Intro|        divisions of Not-being as of Being. To every positive idea—‘
1174 Intro|            the Hegelian identity of Being and Not-being, at all touch
1175 Intro|          For what is asserted about Being and Not-Being only relates
1176 Intro|           identified with Other, or Being with Not-being, this does
1177 Intro|             from the positive, and ‘Being’ and ‘Not-being’ are inextricably
1178 Intro|            is one of the classes of Being. They are aspects rather
1179 Intro|      aspects rather than classes of Being. Not-being can only be included
1180 Intro|             can only be included in Being, as the denial of some particular
1181 Intro|            some particular class of Being. If we attempt to pursue
1182 Intro|            the Hegelian identity of Being and Not-being is a more
1183 Intro|           distinguished between the Being which is prior to Not-being,
1184 Intro|         prior to Not-being, and the Being which is the negation of
1185 Intro|           of this when he says that Being comprehends Not-being. Again,
1186 Intro|             there is an opposite of Being. He is inclined to leave
1187 Intro|        which were ever marrying and being given in marriage: in speaking
1188 Intro|           many names to be the true Being of Zeno and the Eleatics,
1189 Intro|        attribute motion or power to Being; 6. they are the enemies
1190 Intro|              which is described as ‘being very skilful in physics,
1191 Intro|            simple ideas of Unity or Being. In the Sophist the same
1192 Intro|         cannot be attributed to any being; for how can any being be
1193 Intro|          any being; for how can any being be wholly abstracted from
1194 Intro|           be wholly abstracted from being? Again, in every predication
1195 Intro|      not-being which does not imply being and number. ‘But I cannot.’
1196 Intro|            a pretty complication of being and not-being, in which
1197 Intro|             ourselves, by affirming being of not-being. I think that
1198 Intro|      inconsistency in asserting the being of not-being. But if I am
1199 Intro|             difficulties even about being.~Let us proceed first to
1200 Intro|         first to the examination of being. Turning to the dualist
1201 Intro|    philosophers, we say to them: Is being a third element besides
1202 Intro|            of the two elements with being? At any rate, you can hardly
1203 Intro|            one. To them we say: Are being and one two different names
1204 Intro|          name. Again, the notion of being is conceived of as a whole—
1205 Intro|          for unity has no parts. Is being, then, one, because the
1206 Intro|           one, because the parts of being are one, or shall we say
1207 Intro|           one, or shall we say that being is not a whole? In the former
1208 Intro|            is still plurality, viz. being, and a whole which is apart
1209 Intro|           whole which is apart from being. And being, if not all things,
1210 Intro|            is apart from being. And being, if not all things, lacks
1211 Intro|          something of the nature of being, and becomes not-being.
1212 Intro|          becomes not-being. Nor can being ever have come into existence,
1213 Intro|          except as a whole; nor can being have number, for that which
1214 Intro|             in the consideration of being.~We may proceed now to the
1215 Intro|     attributed to them by the term “being” or “existence”?’ And, as
1216 Intro|           well reply for them, that being is the power of doing or
1217 Intro|           distinguish becoming from being?’ ‘Yes,’ they will reply. ‘
1218 Intro|           the bodily senses, and in being, by thought and the mind?’ ‘
1219 Intro|             better than you do—that being can neither do nor suffer,
1220 Intro|          the soul know? And is not ‘being’ known? And are not ‘knowing’
1221 Intro|          And are not ‘knowing’ and ‘being known’ active and passive?
1222 Intro|             we imagine that perfect being is a mere everlasting form,
1223 Intro|           immoveable in his idea of being. And yet, alas! he and we
1224 Intro|             second difficulty about being, quite as great as that
1225 Intro|            Shall we assume (1) that being and rest and motion, and
1226 Intro|             may be affirmed to have being. Now the highest kinds are
1227 Intro|           Now the highest kinds are being, rest, motion; and of these,
1228 Intro|             of them are included in being; and again, they are the
1229 Intro|            rest and motion; nor yet being; because if being were attributed
1230 Intro|           nor yet being; because if being were attributed to both
1231 Intro|            other be identified with being; for then other, which is
1232 Intro|            have the absoluteness of being. Therefore we must assume
1233 Intro|            are five principles: (1) being, (2) motion, which is not (
1234 Intro|            other. And motion is not being, but partakes of being,
1235 Intro|          not being, but partakes of being, and therefore is and is
1236 Intro|            runs through all things, being not excepted. And ‘being’
1237 Intro|            being not excepted. And ‘being’ is one thing, and ‘not-being’
1238 Intro|    not-being is not the opposite of being, but only the other. Knowledge
1239 Intro|          search, and is one kind of being. Thus, in spite of Parmenides,
1240 Intro|       communion of different kinds, being and other mutually interpenetrate;
1241 Intro|         other is, but is other than being, and other than each and
1242 Intro|         answered about the kinds of being and the letters of the alphabet:
1243 Intro|             opinion about them. Not being well provided with names,
1244 Intro|          whose art may be traced as being the / contradictious / dissembling /
1245 Intro|         abstractions of one, other, being, not-being, rest, motion,
1246 Intro|            the relative or other of Being, the defining and distinguishing
1247 Intro|          the one and Not-being from Being, and yet shows that the
1248 Intro|           that Not-being returns to Being.~In several of the later
1249 Intro|             the analysis of one and Being.~It is difficult within
1250 Intro|             effect, are perpetually being severed from one another
1251 Intro|      theology and politics, without being disturbed by them. Whatever
1252 Intro|           with all, in the chain of Being. The struggle for existence
1253 Intro|            revelation of the Divine Being. He would have been said
1254 Intro|          conception, such as one or Being, which was absolutely at
1255 Intro|         negative, the conception of Being involved Not-being, the
1256 Intro|      Heracleitus. The opposition of Being and Not-being projected
1257 Intro|            of knowledge and also of Being, in which all the stages
1258 Intro|            are gathered up and from being hypotheses become realities.~
1259 Intro|      proceed upwards to the highest being or thought. Metaphysic is
1260 Intro|         association with the Divine Being. Yet they are the poorest
1261 Intro|            Hegel, the division into being, essence, and notion, are
1262 Intro|           own system, and the terms Being, Not-being, existence, essence,
1263 Intro|       nature. We are conscious of a Being who is without us as well
1264 Intro|           but this is very far from being the fulfilment of their
1265 Intro|            succession? The ideas of Being, change, number, seem to
1266 Intro|           can see that the union of Being and Not-being gave birth
1267 Intro|          might be another aspect of Being. Again, the Eleatics may
1268 Intro|           as for example the words ‘Being,’ ‘essence,’ ‘matter,’ ‘
1269 Intro|           Wallace’s Hegel), or the ‘Being and Not-being’ of Heracleitus
1270 Intro|             of philosophy, such as ‘Being,’ ‘matter,’ ‘cause,’ and
1271 Intro|           as if thought, instead of being identical with language,
1272 Intro|            all the endless forms of Being and knowledge. Are we not ‘
1273 Intro|            the mere accident of our being the heirs of the Greek philosophers
1274 Intro|          single thought of a Divine Being, can be supposed to have
1275 Intro|           room,’ yet he is far from being ignorant of the world. No
1276 Text |             feel ashamed, Socrates, being a new-comer into your society,
1277 Text |      conversed with him myself, and being recommended by you to take
1278 Text |             one half of this again, being the kind which strikes with
1279 Text |            takes place in the city, being about half of the whole,
1280 Text |            not less ridiculous, but being a trade in learning must
1281 Text |         which the style is far from being agreeable to the majority
1282 Text |      thought to dispute rightly, or being thought to do so were deemed
1283 Text |       magician and imitator of true being; or are we still disposed
1284 Text |            STRANGER: And that which being other is also like, may
1285 Text |            really exists, and avoid being caught in a contradiction?
1286 Text |          the audacity to assert the being of not-being; for this is
1287 Text |            is not applicable to any being.~THEAETETUS: None, certainly.~
1288 Text |             STRANGER: And if not to being, then not to something.~
1289 Text |            of something we speak of being, for to speak of an abstract
1290 Text |         naked and isolated from all being is impossible.~THEAETETUS:
1291 Text |          and ought not to attribute being to not-being?~THEAETETUS:
1292 Text |             strange complication of being and not-being we are involved!~
1293 Text |            and over again to assert being of not-being, which we admitted
1294 Text |        sense not-being is, and that being, on the other hand, is not.~
1295 Text |           is safer, and to say that being is one and many, and that
1296 Text |          the same perplexity about ‘being,’ and yet may fancy that
1297 Text |            people mean by the word ‘being.’~STRANGER: You follow close
1298 Text |            of the two principles is being, and yet attribute being
1299 Text |            being, and yet attribute being equally to both of them;
1300 Text |          the two is identified with being, will comprehend the other;
1301 Text |           mean to give the name of ‘being’ to both of them together?~
1302 Text |             mean, when you speak of being; for there can be no doubt
1303 Text |             them what they mean by ‘being’?~THEAETETUS: By all means.~
1304 Text |           something which you call ‘being’?~THEAETETUS: ‘Yes.’~STRANGER:
1305 Text |              Yes.’~STRANGER: And is being the same as one, and do
1306 Text |            who asserts the unity of being will find a difficulty in
1307 Text |             be only one of one, and being absolute unity, will represent
1308 Text |       actually say so.~STRANGER: If being is a whole, as Parmenides
1309 Text |             side nor on that—’~then being has a centre and extremes,
1310 Text |          the parts, and in this way being all and a whole, may be
1311 Text |         STRANGER: Shall we say that being is one and a whole, because
1312 Text |         unity? Or shall we say that being is not a whole at all?~THEAETETUS:
1313 Text |            STRANGER: Most true; for being, having in a certain sense
1314 Text |           Yes.~STRANGER: And yet if being be not a whole, through
1315 Text |         thing as an absolute whole, being lacks something of its own
1316 Text |              Upon this view, again, being, having a defect of being,
1317 Text |           being, having a defect of being, will become not-being?~
1318 Text |          becomes more than one, for being and the whole will each
1319 Text |              that besides having no being, being can never have come
1320 Text |            besides having no being, being can never have come into
1321 Text |            can never have come into being.~THEAETETUS: Why so?~STRANGER:
1322 Text |       Because that which comes into being always comes into being
1323 Text |             being always comes into being as a whole, so that he who
1324 Text |        trouble to him who says that being is either one or two.~THEAETETUS:
1325 Text |         exact thinkers who treat of being and not-being. But let us
1326 Text |             all, that the nature of being is quite as difficult to
1327 Text |             touched or handled have being or essence, because they
1328 Text |        essence, because they define being and body as one, and if
1329 Text |       STRANGER: With those who make being to consist in ideas, there
1330 Text |            the smallest particle of being, is incorporeal, it is enough;
1331 Text |            respecting the nature of being, having nothing of their
1332 Text |         hold that the definition of being is simply power.~THEAETETUS:
1333 Text |              STRANGER: We said that being was an active or passive
1334 Text |            sufficient definition of being?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1335 Text |      neither power is applicable to being.~THEAETETUS: And is there
1336 Text |            the soul knows, and that being or essence is known.~THEAETETUS:
1337 Text |        STRANGER: And is knowing and being known doing or suffering,
1338 Text |           passive. And on this view being, in so far as it is known,
1339 Text |            not present with perfect being? Can we imagine that being
1340 Text |          being? Can we imagine that being is devoid of life and mind,
1341 Text |         that both inhere in perfect being, but that it has no soul
1342 Text |             them?~STRANGER: Or that being has mind and life and soul,
1343 Text |         irrational.~STRANGER: Under being, then, we must include motion,
1344 Text |     immoveable in his definition of being and all.~THEAETETUS: Most
1345 Text |             gained a fair notion of being?~THEAETETUS: Yes truly.~
1346 Text |      STRANGER: Then you conceive of being as some third and distinct
1347 Text |            they both participate in being, you declare that they are.~
1348 Text |             have an intimation that being is some third thing, when
1349 Text |          motion are.~STRANGER: Then being is not the combination of
1350 Text |             would appear.~STRANGER: Being, then, according to its
1351 Text |            clear or fixed notion of being in his mind?~THEAETETUS:
1352 Text |         rest must be in motion; but being is placed outside of both
1353 Text |            great a difficulty about being?~THEAETETUS: I should say,
1354 Text |  acknowledge the difficulty; and as being and not-being are involved
1355 Text |           at all upon the nature of being, let us put our questions
1356 Text |        Shall we refuse to attribute being to motion and rest, or anything
1357 Text |        motion cannot participate in being at all.~THEAETETUS: They
1358 Text |             if not participating in being?~THEAETETUS: No.~STRANGER:
1359 Text |             of those who distribute being into immutable and everlasting
1360 Text |            these add on a notion of being, some affirming that things ‘
1361 Text |             reason with the idea of being, is also dark from excess
1362 Text |            clearness the notions of being and not-being, we may at
1363 Text |            were just now mentioning—being and rest and motion.~THEAETETUS:
1364 Text |        incapable.~STRANGER: Whereas being surely has communion with
1365 Text |         motion, for either of them, being predicated of both, will
1366 Text |             are we to conceive that being and the same are identical?~
1367 Text |           that motion and rest have being, we should also be saying
1368 Text |           cannot be.~STRANGER: Then being and the same cannot be one.~
1369 Text |        class? Or should we consider being and other to be two names
1370 Text |        would not be the case unless being and the other entirely differed;
1371 Text |             for, if the other, like being, were absolute as well as
1372 Text |            is, because partaking of being.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1373 Text |           that motion is other than being?~THEAETETUS: Without the
1374 Text |        motion, since it partakes of being, really is and also is not?~
1375 Text |             each of them other than being, and so non-existent; and
1376 Text |         inasmuch as they partake of being, that they are and are existent.~
1377 Text |              then, has plurality of being and infinity of not-being.~
1378 Text |           must infer.~STRANGER: And being itself may be said to be
1379 Text |              Then we may infer that being is not, in respect of as
1380 Text |       present statement [viz., that being is not, etc.], let him first
1381 Text |             of something opposed to being, but only different.~THEAETETUS:
1382 Text |             to be the opposition of being to being?~THEAETETUS: Very
1383 Text |          the opposition of being to being?~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
1384 Text |             other, and of a part of being, to one another, is, if
1385 Text |             so, as truly essence as being itself, and implies not
1386 Text |         implies not the opposite of being, but only what is other
1387 Text |             only what is other than being.~THEAETETUS: Beyond question.~
1388 Text |           among the many classes of being. Do you, Theaetetus, still
1389 Text |             have shown what form of being not-being is; for we have
1390 Text |            other is contrasted with being, this is precisely what
1391 Text |          opposition of not-being to being, we still assert the being
1392 Text |          being, we still assert the being of not-being; for as to
1393 Text |             there is an opposite of being, to that enquiry we have
1394 Text |      communion of classes, and that being, and difference or other,
1395 Text |          that the other partakes of being, and by reason of this participation
1396 Text |            partakes, but other, and being other than being, it is
1397 Text |         other, and being other than being, it is clearly a necessity
1398 Text |     not-being should be. And again, being, through partaking of the
1399 Text |          the remaining classes, and being other than all of them,
1400 Text |         thousands of cases in which being is not, and all other things,
1401 Text |             approach the problem of being.~THEAETETUS: To be sure.~
1402 Text |           discourse to be a kind of being; for if we could not, the
1403 Text |           classes diffused over all being.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1404 Text |           not in any way partake of being.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
1405 Text |            been shown to partake of being, and therefore he will not
1406 Text |          two sorts of intimation of being which are given by the voice.~
1407 Text |          the same, and not-being as being, such a combination of nouns
1408 Text |             nature brings them into being from some spontaneous and
1409 Text |        belongs to the class of real being.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:


The Statesman
     Part
1410 Intro|           the clumsy joke about man being an animal, who has a power
1411 Intro|      Hellene is further humbled, by being compared to a Phrygian or
1412 Intro|           of four-legged creatures, being the double of two feet,
1413 Intro|          the animal world, and this being the greatest of them, is
1414 Intro|            softer and smaller, and, being reduced to the condition
1415 Intro|            ancestors, who came into being immediately after the end
1416 Intro|      Children are taught to read by being made to compare cases in
1417 Intro|            is secured by the rulers being many or few, rich or poor,
1418 Intro|             or poor, or by the rule being compulsory or voluntary?
1419 Intro|      insists always on his commands being fulfilled under all circumstances. ‘
1420 Intro|             least good of them all, being the best of all lawless
1421 Intro|             himself, of the Supreme Being. But whether applied to
1422 Intro|       gentle and humane, capable of being altered in the spirit of
1423 Intro|           of the legislator, and of being administered so as to meet
1424 Intro|             and society, instead of being safer, is more at the mercy
1425 Intro|            concerning the nature of Being and Not-being, but concerning
1426 Intro|            in those of an imitator, being too subtle and minute to
1427 Text |             species of animals; man being one, and all brutes making
1428 Text |        power of the remaining kind, being the power of twice two feet,
1429 Text |          after, and have now found, being at once the royal and political.~
1430 Text |           he lets go, and the world being a living creature, and having
1431 Text |            go, moves spontaneously, being set free at such a time
1432 Text |           last period and came into being at the beginning of this,
1433 Text |           is by comparison a divine being, still rules over the lower
1434 Text |          rule of the supreme power, being informed of what was happening,
1435 Text |          round with a sudden shock, being impelled in an opposite
1436 Text |         longer allowed to come into being in the earth through the
1437 Text |            a picture of some living being which had been fairly drawn
1438 Text |        intelligent persons a living being had better be delineated
1439 Text |            and the fixing of doors, being divisions of the art of
1440 Text |      concerning the Sophist and the being of not-being. I know that
1441 Text |            first and highest of all being to assert the great method
1442 Text |            intended to be sat upon, being always a seat for something.~
1443 Text |          other things? all of which being made for the sake of defence,
1444 Text |       consider this notion of there being good government without
1445 Text |            to make them better from being worse.~YOUNG SOCRATES: No
1446 Text |             as far as they admit of being written down from the lips
1447 Text |      knowledge, may be set aside as being not Statesmen but partisans, —
1448 Text |          and themselves idols; and, being the greatest imitators and
1449 Text |        distinguished from politics, being a different species, yet
1450 Text |              and who are capable of being united by the statesman,
1451 Text |          those who are unlike them, being too much influenced by feelings


The Symposium
     Part
1452 Intro|            a disinterested lover in being deceived: but the interested
1453 Intro|       contemplation of that supreme being of love he will be purified
1454 Intro|          through all nature and all being: at one end descending to
1455 Intro|              Phaedrus and Pausanias being the ethical, Eryximachus
1456 Intro|        flute-girl, staggers in, and being drunk is able to tell of
1457 Intro|          well as of beauty, the one being the expression of the other;
1458 Text |          was really a most wretched being, no better than you are
1459 Text |          Love, these two, came into being. Also Parmenides sings of
1460 Text |              will be more pained at being detected by his beloved
1461 Text |     detected by his beloved than at being seen by his father, or by
1462 Text |          and has no discrimination, being such as the meaner sort
1463 Text |             youths, and the goddess being older, there is nothing
1464 Text |         their discredit; the reason being, as I suppose, that they
1465 Text |             there is a dishonour in being overcome by the love of
1466 Text |            is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other
1467 Text |          there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For
1468 Text |            disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is
1469 Text |           different and unlike, and being unlike, they have loves
1470 Text |          destructive and injurious, being the source of pestilence,
1471 Text |           or woman as we call them,—being the sections of entire men
1472 Text |            clung to that. They were being destroyed, when Zeus in
1473 Text |           and while they are young, being slices of the original man,
1474 Text |          you grow together, so that being two you shall become one,
1475 Text |       should be true, and that this being presupposed, out of the
1476 Text |            added Socrates, if a man being strong desired to be strong,
1477 Text |            desired to be strong, or being swift desired to be swift,
1478 Text |             desired to be swift, or being healthy desired to be healthy,
1479 Text |             must speak first of the being and nature of Love, and
1480 Text |       replied; ‘which, as you know, being incapable of giving a reason,
1481 Text |             or lover of wisdom, and being a lover of wisdom is in
1482 Text |           passage of non-being into being is poetry or making, and
1483 Text |            knowledge, which is ever being forgotten, and is renewed
1484 Text |            he may see their beauty, being not like a servant in love
1485 Text |            or existing in any other being, as for example, in an animal,
1486 Text |             true order of going, or being led by another, to the things
1487 Text |       persuaded of their truth. And being persuaded of them, I try
1488 Text |             with him; and as he was being led, intending to crown
1489 Text |            and not be at all nearer being drunk. Socrates drank the
1490 Text |             with them and is always being smitten by them, and then
1491 Text |             simply marvellous when, being cut off from our supplies,
1492 Text |       wonderful to relate! no human being had ever seen Socrates drunk;
1493 Text |             unlikeness to any human being that is or ever has been
1494 Text |            men, but of this strange being you will never be able to
1495 Text |         were constrained to assent, being drowsy, and not quite following


Theaetetus
     Part
1496 Intro|          the problems about One and Being which have been raised in
1497 Intro|            universal conceptions of being, likeness, sameness, number,
1498 Intro|      Platonic Ideas and the Eleatic Being, but all abstractions seemed
1499 Intro|        theory of rest or motion, or Being or atoms, but rather a philosophy
1500 Intro|          the universal principle of Being and the multitudinous principle