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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| an evil. Anytus is quite right in saying that they should
2 Intro| and had fought for the right, as he would certainly have
3 Intro| principles of truth and right which he deemed to be the
4 Text | I am certain that I am right in taking this course.):
5 Text | very unfortunate if you are right. But suppose I ask you a
6 Text | doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part
7 Text | he who will fight for the right, if he would live even for
8 Text | had always maintained the right and had made justice, as
Charmides
Part
9 PreS | rhythmical and varied, the right admixture of words and syllables,
10 PreS | of Philol.) We have no right to connect statements which
11 Intro| is not to be denied that right ideas of truth may contribute
12 Text | Yes, he said.~And they are right, and you would agree with
13 Text | Greek physicians are quite right as far as they go; but Zamolxis,
14 Text | temperance is quietness.~Are you right, Charmides? I said. No doubt
15 Text | Socrates, that you are right.~Then once more, Charmides,
16 Text | our own business.’ Was he right who affirmed that?~You monster!
17 Text | not.~There you are in the right, Socrates, he replied.~To
18 Text | And you may be very likely right in what you are saying;
19 Text | salutation of ‘Hail!’ is not right, and that the exhortation ‘
20 Text | whether you or I are more right, but, at any rate, no clear
21 Text | refutation.~I think that you are right, he replied; and I will
22 Text | the matter.~You are quite right.~Well then, this science
23 Text | satisfy me that you are right in your view of temperance.~
24 Text | whether the assumption is right or wrong may hereafter be
25 Text | whether what he does is right, in relation to health and
26 Text | acquainted with them.~Were we not right in making that admission?~
27 Text | about wisdom; I was quite right in depreciating myself;
Cratylus
Part
28 Intro| Socrates is either wholly right or wholly wrong, or that
29 Intro| In a sense, Cratylus is right in saying that things have
30 Intro| dialectician standing on his right hand,’ we need not infer
31 Intro| genial and ironical mood hits right and left at his adversaries:
32 Intro| the Gods must of course be right in their use of names. And
33 Intro| which are more likely to be right—the wiser or the less wise,
34 Intro| but I say that if kakia is right, then arete is also right.
35 Intro| right, then arete is also right. But what is kakon? That
36 Intro| and therefore they are right; or that the barbarians
37 Intro| that pictures may give a right or wrong representation
38 Intro| representation true and right or false and wrong? Cratylus
39 Intro| will admit that there is a right or a wrong assignment of
40 Intro| safely argue from them about right and wrong, matter and mind,
41 Intro| dialectician standing on his right hand,’ in Plato’s striking
42 Intro| hardly say that there is a right or wrong in the formation
43 Intro| They are distributed on the right hand and on the left by
44 Text | give, in my opinion, is the right one, and if you change that
45 Text | dare say that you may be right, Hermogenes: let us see;—
46 Text | SOCRATES: But if Protagoras is right, and the truth is that things
47 Text | SOCRATES: But if neither is right, and things are not relative
48 Text | and the natural process is right and will succeed, but any
49 Text | that the natural way is the right way.~SOCRATES: Again, in
50 Text | burning, not every way is the right way; but the right way is
51 Text | is the right way; but the right way is the natural way,
52 Text | the natural way, and the right instrument the natural instrument.~
53 Text | persons; and Cratylus is right in saying that things have
54 Text | to call things by their right and natural names; do you
55 Text | believe you to be on the right track.~SOCRATES: There is
56 Text | HERMOGENES: I believe you are right.~SOCRATES: And may not the
57 Text | of all. Wherefore we are right in calling him Zena and
58 Text | word? Tell me if my view is right.~HERMOGENES: Let me hear.~
59 Text | Socrates, that you are quite right, and I would like to do
60 Text | that Cratylus was quite right in saying that I was no
61 Text | previous word kakia was right, then arete is also right.~
62 Text | right, then arete is also right.~HERMOGENES: But what is
63 Text | HERMOGENES: Very likely you are right; but suppose that we leave
64 Text | remark, Hermogenes, how right I was in saying that great
65 Text | this is very likely the right answer, and something of
66 Text | resolution, then we shall be right in saying that we have at
67 Text | believe you to be in the right.~SOCRATES: And suppose the
68 Text | Then could I have been right in what I was saying?~HERMOGENES:
69 Text | and therefore they are right.’ This will be the best
70 Text | disciples.~CRATYLUS: You are right, Socrates, in saying that
71 Text | SOCRATES: I believe you may be right, but I do not rightly understand
72 Text | modes of assigning them right, or only the first?~CRATYLUS:
73 Text | figures or to names, I call right, and when applied to names
74 Text | names only, true as well as right; and the other mode of giving
75 Text | names—they must be always right.~SOCRATES: Why, what is
76 Text | very good of you, if I am right, which need hardly be disputed
77 Text | pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may
78 Text | motion, and hardness? Were we right or wrong in saying so?~CRATYLUS:
79 Text | should say that you were right.~SOCRATES: And that lamda
80 Text | CRATYLUS: There again you were right.~SOCRATES: And yet, as you
81 Text | But, Socrates, am I not right in thinking that he must
82 Text | clear which of the two are right; and this must be a standard
Critias
Part
83 Text | is that he should be set right. Wishing, then, to speak
84 Text | say. Which favour, if I am right in asking, I hope that you
85 Text | district of Oropus on the right, and with the river Asopus
Crito
Part
86 Intro| question is whether he would be right in attempting to escape.
87 Intro| for evil, or betray the right. Are these principles to
88 Intro| to an unjust judgment is right in attempting to escape,
89 Text | zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater
90 Text | others not. Now were we right in maintaining this before
91 Text | Tell me then, whether I am right in saying that some opinions,
92 Text | I ask you whether I was right in maintaining this?~CRITO:
93 Text | Athenians: and if I am clearly right in escaping, then I will
94 Text | CRITO: I think that you are right, Socrates; how then shall
95 Text | off evil by evil is ever right. And shall that be the premiss
96 Text | do what he admits to be right, or ought he to betray the
97 Text | or ought he to betray the right?~CRITO: He ought to do what
98 Text | ought to do what he thinks right.~SOCRATES: But if this is
99 Text | the charge of education, right in commanding your father
100 Text | in music and gymnastic?’ Right, I should reply. ‘Well then,
101 Text | you think that you have a right to do to us what we are
102 Text | you. Would you have any right to strike or revile or do
103 Text | this? And because we think right to destroy you, do you think
104 Text | think that you have any right to destroy us in return,
105 Text | thither we follow as is right; neither may any one yield
106 Text | this very question: Are we right in saying that you agreed
Euthydemus
Part
107 Intro| enough; there must also be a right use of them which can only
108 Text | came and sat down on the right hand of me, as you describe;
109 Text | Cleinias, that we shall be more right in ranking them as goods
110 Text | not that which gives the right use simply the knowledge
111 Text | is that which gives the right way of making them?~He agreed.~
112 Text | which directs us to the right use of them, and regulates
113 Text | is gained by a use, and a right use, of the things of life,
114 Text | things of life, and the right use of them, and good-fortune
115 Text | and think that you are right.~Yes, I said, Cleinias,
116 Text | And yet, perhaps, I was right after all in saying that
117 Text | any good to us. Am I not right?~He agreed.~And if there
118 Text | from one another. Am I not right?~He agreed.~And clearly
119 Text | think that you are quite right.~Whither then shall we go,
120 Text | CRITO: And were you not right, Socrates?~SOCRATES: You
121 Text | and you are found to be right, we will believe the rest.
122 Text | my opinion, he was in the right.~SOCRATES: O Crito, they
Euthyphro
Part
123 Intro| Sophist; no doubt that he is right in prosecuting his father
124 Text | seems to me to begin in the right way, with the cultivation
125 Text | herd know of the nature of right and truth. A man must be
126 Text | EUTHYPHRO: You are quite right.~SOCRATES: Does not every
127 Text | think that you are quite right.~SOCRATES: Then, if piety
128 Text | do.~SOCRATES: Is not the right way of asking to ask of
129 Text | Certainly.~SOCRATES: And the right way of giving is to give
130 Text | assertion; or, if we were right then, we are wrong now.~
The First Alcibiades
Part
131 Text | which I gave is universally right, and when I say right, I
132 Text | universally right, and when I say right, I mean according to rule.~
133 Text | did.~SOCRATES: And I was right?~ALCIBIADES: I think that
134 Text | one in them, we shall be right in sending him to be taught
135 Text | now whether I may not be right, for you were acknowledging
136 Text | I believe that you are right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Nothing
137 Text | ALCIBIADES: I fear that you are right.~SOCRATES: And now see what
138 Text | this city, would you not be right in considering that the
139 Text | I believe that you are right.~SOCRATES: Oh no, my friend,
140 Text | Socrates, that you are right; I do not suppose, however,
141 Text | with the fashioning and right formation of his limbs,
142 Text | Perhaps, at any rate, I am right in saying that all men greatly
143 Text | Then we were not altogether right in acknowledging just now
Gorgias
Part
144 Intro| good, and that might is right, and that law is nothing
145 Intro| maintains that might is right. His great motive of action
146 Intro| for the maintenance of the right only. The revelation of
147 Intro| nature says that ‘might is right.’ And we are always taming
148 Intro| self-accusation, and Polus was right in saying that to do wrong
149 Intro| suffer wrong, and Gorgias was right in saying that the rhetorician
150 Intro| or another’s, you have no right to despise him or any practiser
151 Intro| instances to do what is right, without reference to public
152 Intro| sense or other truth and right are alone to be sought,
153 Intro| like those of duty and right, may be pushed to unpleasant
154 Intro| rebellion of the higher sense of right in man against the ordinary
155 Intro| is the assertion of the right of dissent, or private judgment.
156 Intro| not asserting any abstract right or duty of toleration, or
157 Intro| not affirming any abstract right of this nature: but he is
158 Intro| is asserting the duty and right of the one wise and true
159 Intro| morality of actions which are right or wrong in themselves.
160 Intro| slumbering ideals of truth and right, which may at any time awaken
161 Intro| been too apt to imagine a right and wrong apart from consequences;
162 Intro| obscuring our sense of truth and right. The sophistry of human
163 Intro| of humanity or truth or right, even an ordinary man, from
164 Intro| of the world—not what is right, but what is expedient.
165 Intro| ultimate triumph of truth and right, and declares that no one,
166 Intro| sufferer in the cause of right or truth is often supposed
167 Intro| fame: the sense of duty, of right, and trust in God will be
168 Text | is our friend Callicles right in saying that you undertake
169 Text | are asked?~GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon: I was saying
170 Text | CHAEREPHON: Then we should be right in calling him a physician?~
171 Text | GORGIAS: You are quite right, Socrates, in your apprehension
172 Text | GORGIAS: You would be quite right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
173 Text | have you observe, that I am right in asking this further question:
174 Text | figures,’ should I not be right in asking, ‘What kind of
175 Text | think that you are quite right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Then
176 Text | SOCRATES: And your judgment is right, as you may ascertain in
177 Text | dare say that you may be right, and I may have misunderstood
178 Text | more, for there you are right; and so he whom you make
179 Text | For that would not be right, Polus; but I shall be happy
180 Text | silent, Polus? Am I not right?~POLUS: You are right.~SOCRATES:
181 Text | not right?~POLUS: You are right.~SOCRATES: Hence we may
182 Text | not.~SOCRATES: Then I was right in saying that a man may
183 Text | himself therefore in strict right was the slave of Alcetas;
184 Text | Perdiccas, and to him of right the kingdom belonged; Archelaus,
185 Text | suspect that I was in the right.~SOCRATES: You further said
186 Text | bodily vigour; and if we are right, Polus, in our previous
187 Text | persuasion. But if we, Polus, are right, do you see what follows,
188 Text | popular and vulgar notions of right, which are not natural,
189 Text | says,~‘Makes might to be right, doing violence with highest
190 Text | according to the law of natural right, and that the oxen and other
191 Text | than the mean? Am I not right in my recollection?~CALLICLES:
192 Text | accordance with natural right, because they are superior
193 Text | all, Callicles:—am I not right, my friend?~CALLICLES: You
194 Text | Euripides may have been right in saying,~‘Who knows if
195 Text | hunger is painful: am I not right?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
196 Text | life also is evil: am I not right?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
197 Text | imparted to them: Am I not right? I maintain that I am. And
198 Text | consider whether you are right in throwing in my teeth
199 Text | to avert them. Am I not right Callicles?~CALLICLES: Yes,
200 Text | Callicles?~CALLICLES: Yes, quite right.~SOCRATES: Seeing then that
201 Text | think that Polus and I were right in admitting the conclusion
202 Text | there in your refusal? What right have you to despise the
203 Text | SOCRATES: If they were right in saying that they make
204 Text | make them good—am I not right? (Compare Protag.)~CALLICLES:
205 Text | inferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the
Ion
Part
206 Text | well?~ION: Yes; and I am right in saying so.~SOCRATES:
207 Text | they dance are not in their right mind, so the lyric poets
208 Text | lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing
209 Text | not when they are in their right mind. And the soul of the
210 Text | best of songs? Am I not right, Ion?~ION: Yes, indeed,
211 Text | ION: There again you are right.~SOCRATES: Then you are
212 Text | or Priam,—are you in your right mind? Are you not carried
213 Text | wronging him;—is he in his right mind or is he not?~ION:
214 Text | speaking, he is not in his right mind.~SOCRATES: And are
215 Text | and urge the horse on the right hand with whip and voice;
216 Text | particular art will have no right judgment of the sayings
217 Text | ION: And you are quite right, Socrates, in saying so.~
218 Text | SOCRATES: Yes, Ion, and you are right also. And as I have selected
Laches
Part
219 Text | better appearance at the right time; that is to say, at
220 Text | Socrates, and there Homer is right: for he was speaking of
221 Text | is noble?~LACHES: You are right.~SOCRATES: Then, according
222 Text | true.~SOCRATES: And are we right in saying so?~LACHES: Indeed,
223 Text | am sure that we are not right.~SOCRATES: Then according
224 Text | defining courage in the right way; for you have forgotten
225 Text | am wrong you shall set me right: in my opinion the terrible
226 Text | admit that you would be right in inviting me to perform
Laws
Book
227 1 | other states in war: am I right in supposing this to be
228 1 | Cleinias. You are quite right in asking the question,
229 1 | the natural principles of right and wrong in laws.~Cleinias.
230 1 | praised by the poet at the right time, yet in place and dignity
231 1 | But we maintain that the right way of examining into laws
232 1 | exposition; for you were quite right in beginning with virtue,
233 1 | flatteries which come from the right?~Cleinias. Able to meet
234 1 | Cleinias. You are quite right, Athenian Stranger, and
235 1 | Lacedaemonian polities is right or wrong. But I believe
236 1 | enquire which of them are right or wrong; but with one mouth
237 1 | Spartan lawgiver was quite right in forbidding pleasure.
238 1 | which I hold to be the right one; for if number is to
239 1 | method of enquiry which is right.~Athenian. Let me put the
240 1 | particulars they might be right, but in general they were
241 1 | came in our way, what was right or wrong in such societies.~
242 1 | existence—he may very likely be right. But if he blames a practice
243 1 | accrues to the state from the right training of a single youth,
244 1 | important part of education is right training in the nursery.
245 1 | Cleinias. You are quite right.~Athenian. Let me now proceed,
246 1 | individual, attaining to right reason in this matter of
247 1 | drinking wine, if we are right in supposing that the same
248 2 | more recall our doctrine of right education; which, if I am
249 2 | Stranger, that you are quite right in all that you have said
250 2 | is understood to be the right manner, but has no delight
251 2 | gesture and voice, but is right in his sense of pleasure
252 2 | again, whose natures are right and their habits wrong,
253 2 | wrong, or whose habits are right and their natures wrong,
254 2 | directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms,
255 2 | best has agreed to be truly right. In order, then, that the
256 2 | up your youth. Am I not right? For I plainly declare that
257 2 | ask, (that would be the right way of pursuing the enquiry),
258 2 | in making them do what is right, not on compulsion but voluntarily.~
259 2 | the pleasure; but that the right and the profitable, the
260 2 | doing. Now every melody is right when it has suitable harmony
261 2 | know that the thing is right?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian.
262 2 | let us see whether we were right:—I should imagine that a
263 2 | even greater.~Cleinias. Right.~Athenian. If, then, drinking
264 2 | music.~Cleinias. We were right.~Athenian. And the movement
265 3 | meaning, and you are quite right.~Athenian. But, as time
266 3 | when they placed their town right under numerous streams flowing
267 3 | only known how to make a right use of it in some way; and
268 3 | Megillus. But were you not right and wise in speaking as
269 3 | youth, having no sense of right and justice, prays with
270 3 | the son, having a sense of right and justice, will join in
271 3 | being compounded of the right elements and duly moderated,
272 3 | honour and dishonour in the right way. And the right way is
273 3 | in the right way. And the right way is to place the goods
274 3 | ordinary distinctions of right and wrong which are made
275 3 | considering which of them is the right form: we took a mean in
276 4 | both were and are in the right.~Athenian. Well, but let
277 4 | how can a state be in a right condition which cannot justly
278 4 | polities at all, nor are laws right which are passed for the
279 4 | chastising them by might and right, and will thus render our
280 4 | the muse, is not in his right mind; like a fountain, he
281 4 | Athenian. I think that you are right, Cleinias, in affirming
282 5 | subject. Wherefore I am right in bidding every one next
283 6 | educated, that they may have a right judgment, and may be able
284 6 | tribe; and there shall be a right of counterproposal as in
285 6 | their round from left to right as their commanders direct
286 6 | I speak of going to the right, I mean that they are to
287 6 | others omitted. For the right place of an exact statement
288 6 | distribution has been more right than in others, and has
289 6 | opinion, nothing can be more right than the selection of the
290 6 | Cleinias. You recollect at the right moment, Stranger, and do
291 6 | about them in a way which is right and which is not right;
292 6 | is right and which is not right; for what we say about our
293 6 | respect to ourselves. And the right treatment of slaves is to
294 6 | what appears to me to be right and true, Cleinias.~Cleinias.
295 6 | principles of fear and law and right reason; turning them away
296 7 | Athenian. Stranger. Am I not right in maintaining that a good
297 7 | Let us see whether I am right.~Cleinias. Proceed.~Athenian.
298 7 | but if they depart from right and fall into disorder,
299 7 | respect?~Athenian. In that the right and left hand are supposed
300 7 | and the plectrum in the right, but it is downright folly
301 7 | arrow to them with their right, but use either hand for
302 7 | left side weaker than the right act contrary to nature.
303 7 | festive occasions: it will be right also for the boys, until
304 7 | satisfied that he is going right. And this is what we must
305 7 | he can. And what is the right way of living? Are we to
306 7 | plainly in what they are right and in what they are wrong.~
307 7 | argument; but whether we are right or not in our whole conception,
308 7 | but the opposite is not right. In the dance of peace what
309 7 | Cleinias. There you are right if such a knowledge be only
310 7 | only apparent. Nor are we right in supposing that the swiftest
311 8 | that you are perfectly right in what you have been now
312 8 | Megillus. You are very right in saying that tradition,
313 8 | Athenian. Am I not also right in saying that the legislator
314 8 | involving a second notion of right. Three principles will comprehend
315 8 | all mankind, we shall be right in enacting that he be deprived
316 8 | no freeman shall have any right of satisfaction for such
317 8 | bring him back into his own right course; and if any stranger
318 8 | produce of the country, the right and proper way seems to
319 9 | will probably return to his right mind and be improved; for
320 9 | Cleinias. And would he not be right?~Athenian. Perhaps he would;
321 9 | Cleinias. They would be quite right.~Athenian. Perhaps; but
322 9 | to consider whether I am right or quite wrong in what I
323 9 | the other hand, if I am right, when a benefit is wrongly
324 9 | Cleinias. You are perfectly right.~Athenian. We all of us
325 9 | and fear.~Cleinias. Quite right.~Athenian. There was a second
326 10 | by gifts. Now we have a right to claim, as you yourself
327 10 | philosophers are probably right; at any rate we may as well
328 10 | by them that the highest right is might, and in this way
329 10 | mind in accordance with right reason, you appear to me
330 10 | them.~Cleinias. You are right; but I should like to know
331 10 | Cleinias. You are quite right.~Athenian. Shall we, then,
332 10 | Exactly.~Athenian. Then we are right, and speak the most perfect
333 10 | have understood my meaning right well, Cleinias, and now
334 11 | trainer, he shall have no right of restitution; nor shall
335 11 | nor shall there be any right of restitution if the seller
336 11 | person, he shall have the right of restitution, and the
337 11 | the fact, there shall be a right of restitution, whenever
338 11 | the practice may often be right. But they leave the occasion,
339 11 | accordance with their feelings of right and wrong. He who in any
340 11 | what they find to be the right percentage of profit; this
341 11 | this sort, shall have a right of action against the party
342 11 | degree of relationship and right, as we enacted before. Now
343 11 | therefore, if a man makes a right use of his father and grandfather
344 11 | archer, should aim at the right measure of punishment, and
345 12 | generality of cities are quite right in exhorting us to value
346 12 | harm in repeating what is right twice or thrice:—All lesser
347 12 | person shall not have any right of going to law with any
348 12 | persons shall still have the right of bringing suits against
349 12 | answered me, you will have a right to ask of me in return in
350 12 | not,” my good sir, is the right answer. There never has
Lysis
Part
351 Text | to him.~He is not in his right mind, said Ctesippus; he
352 Text | wrong.~You think that he is right?~Yes.~Then, Menexenus, the
353 Text | and that, if we had been right, we should never have gone
354 Text | he replied.~And are they right in saying this?~They may
355 Text | or possibly, altogether, right, if their meaning were rightly
356 Text | first hearing, that he is right, said Menexenus.~Then we
357 Text | this seem to put us in the right way? Just remark, that the
358 Text | acquired by us. Am I not right?~Yes, certainly.~And may
Menexenus
Part
359 Text | now repose. It is meet and right, therefore, that we should
360 Text | and we do not think it right to be one another’s masters
361 Text | bring up our sons in the right way. But we know that she
Meno
Part
362 Intro| Socrates. This is the nature of right opinion. For virtue may
363 Intro| be under the guidance of right opinion as well as of knowledge;
364 Intro| well as of knowledge; and right opinion is for practical
365 Intro| education,’ there may be right opinion, which is a sort
366 Intro| recognizes the lower form of right opinion, as well as the
367 Intro| profession of knowledge, but right opinion is our actual guide.
368 Intro| admitted to be possible. Right opinion is again introduced
369 Intro| action and no place for right and wrong. Individuality
370 Text | other figures.~MENO: Quite right; and that is just what I
371 Text | for very likely you may be right:—You affirm virtue to be
372 Text | Socrates; and we were quite right in doing so.~SOCRATES: But
373 Text | What is virtue? Am I not right?~MENO: I believe that you
374 Text | all good, then we shall be right in thinking that virtue
375 Text | that would have been the right way.~SOCRATES: But if the
376 Text | thought just now that we were right.~SOCRATES: Yes, Meno; but
377 Text | we say that we should be right in sending him to the physicians
378 Text | we mean that we should be right in sending him to those
379 Text | reasons, should we not be right in sending him?~ANYTUS:
380 Text | I dare say that you are right. And now I wish that you,
381 Text | taught?~MENO: Not if we are right in our view. But I cannot
382 Text | none of us remarked that right and good action is possible
383 Text | profitable. Were we not right in admitting this? It must
384 Text | action—there we were also right?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: But
385 Text | do you mean by the word ‘right’?~SOCRATES: I will explain.
386 Text | thither, would he not be a right and good guide?~MENO: Certainly.~
387 Text | And a person who had a right opinion about the way, but
388 Text | knowledge only is the guide of right action; whereas there is
389 Text | action; whereas there is also right opinion.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES:
390 Text | MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion is not less useful
391 Text | knowledge will always be right; but he who has right opinion
392 Text | be right; but he who has right opinion will sometimes be
393 Text | opinion will sometimes be right, and sometimes not.~SOCRATES:
394 Text | Can he be wrong who has right opinion, so long as he has
395 Text | opinion, so long as he has right opinion?~MENO: I admit the
396 Text | knowledge should be preferred to right opinion—or why they should
397 Text | Socrates; and you are quite right in saying so.~SOCRATES:
398 Text | SOCRATES: And am I not also right in saying that true opinion
399 Text | Socrates, I think you are right.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion
400 Text | are right.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion is not a whit inferior
401 Text | nor is the man who has right opinion inferior to him
402 Text | knowledge, but because they have right opinion, and that neither
403 Text | that neither knowledge nor right opinion is given to man
404 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: And the right guide is useful and good?~
405 Text | SOCRATES: And the only right guides are knowledge and
406 Text | must have guided states by right opinion, which is in politics
407 Text | SOCRATES: Then we shall also be right in calling divine those
408 Text | Socrates, that they are right; although very likely our
409 Text | to be, if we are at all right in our view, that virtue
Parmenides
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410 Intro| say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in the right places. A hint has been
411 Text | would say that I have a right and a left side, and a front
412 Text | Parmenides himself, who is quite right in saying that you are hardly
413 Text | of course be parts of it.~Right.~But then, again, a beginning
414 Text | neither straight nor round?~Right.~And, being of such a nature,
415 Text | be other than anything?~Right.~Neither will one be the
416 Text | many parts as measures.~Right.~And if it were of one measure,
417 Text | but if one is:—am I not right?~Quite right.~We mean to
418 Text | is:—am I not right?~Quite right.~We mean to say, that being
419 Text | also of being: am I not right?~Certainly.~And if all number
420 Text | perception of it?~Quite right.~Then there is name and
421 Text | they would be simply one.~Right.~And parts, as we affirm,
422 Text | must say what is. Am I not right?~Yes.~And since we affirm
423 Text | moved, it is not altered?~Right.~Then the one that is not
Phaedo
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424 Intro| suicide is thought not to be right, if death is to be accounted
425 Intro| of the gods, and has no right to make away with that which
426 Intro| him to their own ideas of right, they would long ago have
427 Intro| of our ideas of truth and right than we are of the existence
428 Intro| correctly: ‘The existence of right and truth is the existence
429 Text | is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run
430 Text | they desire.~And they are right, Simmias, in thinking so,
431 Text | whether I have sought in a right way or not, and whether
432 Text | therefore I maintain that I am right, Simmias and Cebes, in not
433 Text | question to a person in a right way, he will give a true
434 Text | there were knowledge and right reason already in him? And
435 Text | friend, that you may be right, but I should like to know
436 Text | was close to him on his right hand, seated on a sort of
437 Text | friend, we can never be right in saying that the soul
438 Text | thought it better and more right to remain here and undergo
439 Text | of them all, and pierces right through the whole earth;
440 Text | they of whom you speak are right in so acting, for they think
441 Text | gainers by the delay; but I am right in not following their example,
Phaedrus
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442 Intro| acknowledges that he is not in his right mind? And yet they are praised
443 Intro| Socrates himself has given the right clue when, in using his
444 Text | cloister.~SOCRATES: There he is right. Lysias then, I suppose,
445 Text | importance, can a man be right in trusting himself to one
446 Text | admits that he is not in his right mind, and acknowledges that
447 Text | himself? And if he came to his right mind, would he ever imagine
448 Text | tendency of opinion towards right, and is led away to the
449 Text | think? Would they not have a right to laugh at us? They might
450 Text | alike, and is in all equally right, and equally to be esteemed—
451 Text | would have ended. Am I not right, sweet Phaedrus?~PHAEDRUS:
452 Text | accepted.~PHAEDRUS: And right manfully.~SOCRATES: You
453 Text | divided into a left side and right side, each having parts
454 Text | side, each having parts right and left of the same name—
455 Text | madness which lay on the right side, found another love,
456 Text | knows whether the name is right or not. And I should like
457 Text | which you desire, by the right application of words and
458 Text | I suspect that you are right.~SOCRATES: And do you think
459 Text | Yes, friend, and he was right:—still, we ought not to
460 Text | You may very likely be right, Socrates.~SOCRATES: The
461 Text | in the system. Am I not right, Phaedrus?~PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~
462 Text | think that the Theban is right in his view about letters.~
463 Text | and no others—this is the right sort of man; and you and
Philebus
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464 Intro| higher good will have a right to the second. They agree,
465 Intro| to ask how he can have a right to attribute a new predicate (
466 Intro| eristic and dialectic. And the right way of proceeding is to
467 Intro| pleasures associated with right opinion, and others with
468 Intro| will indicate to us the right track. They will say, that
469 Intro| For the universal test of right actions (how I know them)
470 Intro| human life depends upon a right estimate of pleasures greater
471 Intro| has cast their thoughts of right and wrong in another mould;
472 Intro| Utility is coextensive with right, and that no action can
473 Intro| and that no action can be right which does not tend to the
474 Intro| class of actions are made right or wrong by their consequences
475 Intro| preference of expediency to right, but one of the highest
476 Intro| sense: Are our ideas of right and wrong innate or derived
477 Intro| natural sense of religion and right.~We may further remark that
478 Intro| hesitation in determining what is right and wrong. The principles
479 Intro| alone makes actions either right or desirable is their utility,
480 Intro| acknowledging that what is right for us is the right and
481 Intro| what is right for us is the right and inheritance of others.
482 Intro| a universal good, truth, right; which is capable of inspiring
483 Intro| disagreement in theory about the right relations of the sexes than
484 Intro| conceptions of harmony, happiness, right, freedom, benevolence, self-love,
485 Intro| difference, of opinion about the right and wrong of actions, but
486 Intro| are told that actions are right or wrong only in so far
487 Intro| from being coextensive with right. Or we may reply that happiness
488 Intro| while admitting that in all right action there is an element
489 Intro| admitted that utility and right coincide, not in particular
490 Intro| taught that when utility and right are in apparent conflict
491 Intro| declares certain acts to be right or wrong:—can there be any
492 Intro| if performed by another. Right can never be wrong, or wrong
493 Intro| never be wrong, or wrong right, that there are no actions
494 Intro| we say not only that all right actions tend to happiness,
495 Intro| degree in which they are right (and in that case the word ‘
496 Intro| and in that case the word ‘right’ is plainer), we weaken
497 Intro| pleasure’: their principle of right is of a far higher character—
498 Intro| encouraging individuals to make right or wrong for themselves,
499 Intro| beginning with ‘Might is right,’ at any rate seeks to deduce
500 Intro| highest ideas of truth and right there can never be too much.