(...) Theaetetus
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1501 Intro|             met Theaetetus, who was being carried up from the army
1502 Intro|           perception, coincide with being. I suspect, however, that
1503 Intro|           flux and generation, not “being,” as we ignorantly affirm,
1504 Intro|             you discourse about man being reduced to the level of
1505 Intro|          Well, the doctrine is old, being derived from the poets,
1506 Intro|           not be forgotten:—~‘Alone being remains unmoved which is
1507 Intro|          soul perceives by herself. Being is the most universal of
1508 Intro|           perception does not reach being, and therefore fails of
1509 Intro|            occupied by herself with being, is said to have opinion—
1510 Intro|             answer in the sphere of being: ‘When a man thinks, and
1511 Intro|         falsely. And so the path of being is closed against us, as
1512 Intro|            The Eleatic isolation of Being and the Megarian or Cynic
1513 Intro|             the further accident of being dependent for his knowledge
1514 Intro|         they are avowed, instead of being veiled, as in modern times,
1515 Intro|           abstract notions, such as Being and Not-being, sameness
1516 Intro|        Ideas as well as the Eleatic Being and the individualism of
1517 Intro|         doxa was full of ambiguity, being sometimes, as in the Eleatic
1518 Intro|            gains her conceptions of Being, sameness, number, and the
1519 Intro|             flower, a tree, a human being. They may be conceived as
1520 Intro|           imperceptibly from one or Being to mind and thought. Appearance
1521 Intro|      philosophy to be ‘Knowledge of being or essence,’— words to which
1522 Intro|          necessary existence to us. Being the simplest of our ideas,
1523 Intro|            space. The conception of being is more general than either,
1524 Intro|           into the knowledge of our being; and yet, like many other
1525 Intro|             nature, man is a social being, who is always being educated
1526 Intro|         social being, who is always being educated by language, habit,
1527 Intro|            of their true nature not being perceived. They are veiled
1528 Intro|   continuity, which though far from being its highest determination,
1529 Intro|         confined to sense is always being brought back from the higher
1530 Intro|             common use of language, being neither able to win acceptance
1531 Intro|     primitive conceptions of unity, being, rest, motion, and the like.
1532 Intro|    observation of external actions, being the actions not only of
1533 Intro|         very language which it uses being the result of the instincts
1534 Intro|             word which a man utters being the answer to some other
1535 Intro|           this higher aspect of his being he grasps the ideas of God,
1536 Text |             I met Theaetetus—he was being carried up to Athens from
1537 Text |          reason of this latter name being, that they are commensurable
1538 Text |          because they are afraid of being called procuresses, which
1539 Text |             by evil communications, being fonder of lies and shams
1540 Text |            always of existence, and being the same as knowledge is
1541 Text |            by us incorrectly called being, but is really becoming,
1542 Text |            source of what is called being and becoming, and inactivity
1543 Text |          absolute existence, but as being all of them of whatever
1544 Text |       becoming and in relation; and being must be altogether abolished,
1545 Text |            of nature all things are being created and destroyed, coming
1546 Text |          and destroyed, coming into being and passing into new forms;
1547 Text |           perception is true to me, being inseparable from my own
1548 Text |             inseparable from my own being; and, as Protagoras says,
1549 Text |          trips in the conception of being or becoming, can I fail
1550 Text |             about the reason of man being degraded to the level of
1551 Text |     Socrates, will not easily avoid being drawn into an argument;
1552 Text |             the truth of Protagoras being doubted by all, will be
1553 Text |   sheepishness; and when others are being praised and glorified, in
1554 Text |       strange experience to him, he being dismayed, and lost, and
1555 Text |          whether I would or not, of being a measure of anything.~THEODORUS:
1556 Text |         doctrine, Theodorus,~‘Alone Being remains unmoved, which is
1557 Text |           stoutly maintain that all being is one and self-contained,
1558 Text |          old, or becomes black from being white, or hard from being
1559 Text |           being white, or hard from being soft, or undergoes any other
1560 Text |           as those which are called being and not-being, and those
1561 Text |     THEAETETUS: You are thinking of being and not being, likeness
1562 Text |           thinking of being and not being, likeness and unlikeness,
1563 Text |     beautiful and good. And besides being beautiful, you have done
1564 Text |         which class would you refer being or essence; for this, of
1565 Text |            their reflections on the being and use of them are slowly
1566 Text |        truth who fails of attaining being?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~
1567 Text |          mere impression, truth and being can be attained?~THEAETETUS:
1568 Text |          seeing, hearing, smelling, being cold and being hot?~THEAETETUS:
1569 Text |            smelling, being cold and being hot?~THEAETETUS: I should
1570 Text |           of truth any more than of being?~THEAETETUS: Certainly not.~
1571 Text |           is alone and engaged with being.~THEAETETUS: You mean, Socrates,
1572 Text |         thing.~SOCRATES: That point being now determined, must we
1573 Text |           not knowing, into that of being and not-being.~THEAETETUS:
1574 Text |             either in the sphere of being or of knowledge?~THEAETETUS:
1575 Text |         Kerh Kerhos); these, I say, being pure and clear, and having
1576 Text |              SOCRATES: I could not, being the man I am. The case would
1577 Text |        attribute to them the words ‘being’ or ‘this,’ because they


Timaeus
     Part
1578 Intro|          ascribes to the mystery of being and not-being, or to the
1579 Intro|       between the world of absolute being and of generation, just
1580 Intro|    Parmenides when he discourses of being and of essence, adopting
1581 Intro|         heavens in a prior state of being. The ideas also remain,
1582 Intro|             a tale of Solon’s, who, being the friend of Dropidas my
1583 Intro|             was ninety years old, I being not more than ten. The occasion
1584 Intro|         question. Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and
1585 Intro|            of causes. And the world being thus created according to
1586 Intro|         image can only be probable; being is to becoming what truth
1587 Intro|          therefore not jealous, and being free from jealousy he desired
1588 Intro|           of the four elements; and being at unity with itself it
1589 Intro|     intractable nature of the other being compressed into the same.
1590 Intro|           is the best of creations, being the work of the best. And
1591 Intro|           the work of the best. And being composed of the same, the
1592 Intro|           becoming, and not to true being; and equally wrong are we
1593 Intro|            body moving in an orbit, being one of the seven orbits
1594 Intro|           with equal swiftness—this being the reason why they overtake
1595 Intro|             end the stars came into being, that the created heaven
1596 Intro|           fixed stars were created, being divine and eternal animals,
1597 Intro|            from view, had come into being, the Creator addressed them
1598 Intro|         dissolved, but only an evil being would dissolve that which
1599 Intro|          distinguished two kinds of being—the unchanging or invisible,
1600 Intro|           an invisible and formless being which receives all things,
1601 Intro|           so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the
1602 Intro|           the same time.~To sum up: Being and generation and space,
1603 Intro|           nature like a sponge, and being kept cool by drink and air
1604 Intro|              For the authors of our being, in obedience to their Father’
1605 Intro|           are received into it; and being a hollow tissue it is for
1606 Intro|            higher sense of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony
1607 Intro|         which we call blood is red, being the nurturing principle
1608 Intro|         frame is soft and delicate, being newly made of marrow and
1609 Intro|         from long burning, and from being corroded grows bitter, and
1610 Intro|          and sinews, and instead of being oily and smooth and glutinous
1611 Intro|       disease is akin to the living being and has an appointed term,
1612 Intro|          image of the Intellectual, being the one perfect only-begotten
1613 Intro|       nature, they were relieved at being able to utter the thoughts
1614 Intro|            one than two. The words ‘being,’ or ‘unity,’ or essence,’
1615 Intro|          enlargement. We know that ‘being’ is only the verb of existence,
1616 Intro|            to comprehend all truth. Being or essence, and similar
1617 Intro|            them a supreme or divine being, in which they thought that
1618 Intro|          Rep.). They were not, like being or essence, mere vacant
1619 Intro|           be imperfect and unequal, being the first attempt to impress
1620 Intro|              When we accuse them of being under the influence of words,
1621 Intro|            are mere names, like the Being of the Eleatics, unless
1622 Intro|            he speaks of the visible being in the image of the invisible.
1623 Intro|             is the place of mind or being, and the world of sense
1624 Intro|       Parmenides and of the Eleatic Being, the foundation of so much
1625 Intro|           class of (Greek). Matter, being, the Same, the eternal,—
1626 Intro|             for any of these terms, being almost vacant of meaning,
1627 Intro|            meditation on the Divine Being. No one saw that this objective
1628 Intro|       describe the nature of God or Being under negatives. He sings
1629 Intro|             negatives. He sings of ‘Being unbegotten and imperishable,
1630 Intro|             be described as Mind or Being or Truth or God or the unchangeable
1631 Intro|          time but the truest of all Being, the most real of all realities,
1632 Intro|            but they are so far from being elements (Greek) or letters
1633 Intro|              air, and water, which, being composed of similar triangles,
1634 Intro|             masses of the same kind being drawn towards greater: (
1635 Intro|          the intervals between them being in the ratio of two and
1636 Intro|          and night, is described as being the most perfect or intelligent.
1637 Intro|          the orders of the thinking being to the extremities of his
1638 Intro|            our sensations—the first being a sudden restoration, the
1639 Intro|         through the pores, this air being thrust out of its place
1640 Intro|            the nature of the living being and is only irritated by
1641 Intro|            the region of the liver, being transmitted by means of
1642 Intro|           the ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones by which
1643 Intro|             especially incapable of being tested by experiment. (Compare
1644 Intro|           the triangles of Plato in being too small to be visible.
1645 Intro|       perceptible qualities—between Being in the abstract and Nothing.
1646 Intro|           in the world of immutable being. And when reason, which
1647 Intro|           jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired
1648 Text |            Very true.~SOCRATES: And being thus trained they were not
1649 Text |      conceits, but I am afraid that being only wanderers from one
1650 Text |          State, I readily assented, being very well aware, that, if
1651 Text |             rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone,
1652 Text |             very great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction?
1653 Text |        beginning? Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and
1654 Text |     analogous to the real words. As being is to becoming, so is truth
1655 Text |           jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired
1656 Text |             providence of God.~This being supposed, let us proceed
1657 Text |           be need of another living being which would include both,
1658 Text |       having every part entire, and being therefore perfect and not
1659 Text |           place, because the living being had no need of eyes when
1660 Text |            Creator conceived that a being which was self-sufficient
1661 Text |           form was assigned to him, being of all the seven that which
1662 Text |           was fitting, each portion being a compound of the same,
1663 Text |             less than 2), the other being that kind of mean which
1664 Text |             reason and harmony, and being made by the best of intellectual
1665 Text |           in the world of immutable being. And when reason, which
1666 Text |             the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to
1667 Text |            and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order
1668 Text |           and the day were created, being the period of the one most
1669 Text |         know that their wanderings, being infinite in number and admirable
1670 Text |            these reasons, came into being such of the stars as in
1671 Text |      retiring nature, had come into being, the creator of the universe
1672 Text |            undone, but only an evil being would wish to undo that
1673 Text |           if, when in that state of being, he did not desist from
1674 Text |           them to become a rational being. And if these combine in
1675 Text |         which we now term the head, being the most divine part of
1676 Text |             whole stream of vision, being similarly affected in virtue
1677 Text |           changed and extinguished, being no longer of one nature
1678 Text |       reason or intellect; the only being which can properly have
1679 Text |              of those things which, being moved by others, are compelled
1680 Text |          the things which come into being through necessity—for the
1681 Text |          for the creation is mixed, being made up of necessity and
1682 Text |       attribute to this new kind of being? We reply, that it is the
1683 Text |           an invisible and formless being which receives all things
1684 Text |           that there is one kind of being which is always the same,
1685 Text |      vindicating the nature of true being, maintains that while two
1686 Text |              and my verdict is that being and space and generation,
1687 Text |         variety of appearances; and being full of powers which were
1688 Text |        great number of small bodies being combined into a few large
1689 Text |             angles one solid angle, being that which is nearest to
1690 Text |            and also the lightest as being composed of the smallest
1691 Text |     continue to be dissolved until, being completely forced back and
1692 Text |         their own kindred, or else, being overcome and assimilated
1693 Text |             their victors, and from being many become one. And owing
1694 Text |             four elements, and this being circular and having a tendency
1695 Text |        everywhere, and air next, as being next in rarity of the elements;
1696 Text |            whereas the fusile kind, being formed of large and uniform
1697 Text |         much as is fine and liquid (being so called by reason of its
1698 Text |          neighbouring air, and this being rendered heavy, and, when
1699 Text |         earth; for their particles, being smaller than the interstices
1700 Text |             out the lesser, but not being able to take their places,
1701 Text |      principle in us; and this from being unequal and disturbed, is
1702 Text |        sphere, all the extremities, being equidistant from the centre,
1703 Text |          opposite of them all. Such being the nature of the world,
1704 Text |          body of the opposite kind, being immobile, and not extending
1705 Text |          water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire
1706 Text |      assailing them from without or being perpetrated by the desires
1707 Text |              For the authors of our being, remembering the command
1708 Text |           sinews, which admitted of being stretched and relaxed about
1709 Text |          also that it might not, by being crowded and pressed and
1710 Text |             nature which comes into being and grows up in us by a
1711 Text |          rest of the body, but also being in every man far weaker.
1712 Text |           far outside the head, but being too slow to escape, was
1713 Text |         hair sprang up in the skin, being akin to it because it is
1714 Text |            be truly called a living being, and the animal of which
1715 Text |            not differ from a living being, but is fixed and rooted
1716 Text |       ceasing so long as the mortal being holds together. This process,
1717 Text |             in order that the body, being watered and cooled, may
1718 Text |             the network of a creel, being woven all of fire and extended
1719 Text |          air at the other; and this being affected in the same way
1720 Text |             higher sort of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony
1721 Text |             most pervading of them, being created by the cutting action
1722 Text |            divided parts within us, being carried to its kindred nature,
1723 Text |          mass is soft and delicate, being freshly formed of marrow
1724 Text |           comprehended in the body, being older and weaker than the
1725 Text |             the animal grows great, being nourished by a multitude
1726 Text |           flesh which is corrupted, being hard to decompose, from
1727 Text |       burning grows black, and from being everywhere corroded becomes
1728 Text |          other times the bitterness being tinged with blood has a
1729 Text |             diseased, and no longer being separated from the muscles
1730 Text |            flesh and bone, and from being oily and smooth and glutinous
1731 Text |          hard to be got rid of, and being an affection of a sacred
1732 Text |         stale blood, and which from being flesh is dissolved again
1733 Text |            degree of intensity; and being carried to the three places
1734 Text |            which we call the living being; and when in this compound
1735 Text |           manner akin to the living being, whose complex frame has
1736 Text |           the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say,
1737 Text |             assimilate the thinking being to the thought, renewing