(...) Meno
    Part
501 Intro|              in a future state, for a law of alternation pervades


Parmenides
    Part
502 Intro|        explained; in the Republic the law of contradiction and the
503 Intro|               development, evolution, law, and the like, are constantly
504 Intro|            use of the favourite word ‘law,’ which is sometimes regarded
505 Intro|        objects. We see that the term ‘law’ is a mere abstraction,
506 Intro|               matter and of mind, the law of nature and the law of
507 Intro|             the law of nature and the law of the land are included,


Phaedo
    Part
508 Intro|              which are imposed by the law of the land, of all men
509 Intro|             has become industry; that law and constitutional government
510 Intro|               This life is subject to law, and is in a state of progress,
511 Intro|               progress, and therefore law and progress may be believed
512 Intro|            are subject and the higher law which raises us above them


Phaedrus
    Part
513 Intro|          suppose, to arguments in the law courts and speeches in the
514 Intro|            literature and the arts to law and politics, again we fall
515 Intro|               endless maze of English law is there any ‘dividing the
516 Intro|              preferred to the written law; he is supposed to be the
517 Intro|              he is supposed to be the Law personified, the ideal made
518 Text |             see how his master, whose law of life is pleasure and
519 Text |             with this. And there is a law of Destiny, that the soul
520 Text |               to the ground, then the law ordains that this soul shall
521 Text |            True.~SOCRATES: And if the law is finally approved, then
522 Text |              high delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done
523 Text |              and defendant doing in a law court— are they not contending?~
524 Text |           truth—for that in courts of law men literally care nothing


Philebus
    Part
525 Intro|      principle of philosophy; and the law of contradiction, which
526 Intro|               is displaced by another law, which asserts the coexistence
527 Intro|          expressed to us by the word ‘law.’ It is that which measures
528 Intro|              be described as a higher law; the final measure which
529 Intro|              described as the supreme law. Both these conceptions
530 Intro|         element of evil, but rather a law of nature. The chief difference
531 Intro|            modern language as eternal law, and seems to be akin both
532 Intro|             in which the finite gives law to the infinite;—under this
533 Intro|               of all things, and gave law and order to be the salvation
534 Intro|             in which the finite gives law to the infinite. And in
535 Intro|            compared to an incorporeal law, which is to hold fair rule
536 Intro|              principle or with Kant’s law of duty. Yet to avoid misconception,
537 Intro|               truth, some fear of the law. Of some such state or process
538 Intro|               religion, by poetry, by law, having their foundation
539 Intro|               than is required by the law of self-preservation. Transfer
540 Intro|               on foreign politics, on law, on social life, has been
541 Intro|       obedience to parents and to the law of the land than about the
542 Intro|            actest may be adopted as a law by all rational beings,’
543 Intro|              us with the authority of law? ‘You ought’ and ‘you had
544 Intro|              deviate from established law or usage; and that the non-detection
545 Intro|            them? There is a universal law which imperatively declares
546 Intro|               any universality in the law which measures actions by
547 Intro|              with Kant’s obedience to law, which may be summed up
548 Intro|               under the conception of law, the philanthropist under
549 Intro|           utility but in religion, in law, in conceptions of nature,
550 Intro|               corrective principle in law, in politics, in religion,
551 Intro|               equal in the eye of the law and of the legislator.’
552 Intro|           good of men is obedience to law: the best human government
553 Intro|              wholly without regard to law and order. To such a view
554 Intro|           freedom is obedience to the law, and the greatest order
555 Intro|            that thy action may be the law of every intelligent being.’
556 Intro|                this universal idea or law is held to be independent
557 Text | self-indulgence, devised the limit of law and order, whereby, as you
558 Text |            compared to an incorporeal law, which is going to hold


Protagoras
    Part
559 Text |             arts. And further, make a law by my order, that he who
560 Text | fellow-citizens, by nature and not by law; for by nature like is akin
561 Text |              is akin to like, whereas law is the tyrant of mankind,


The Republic
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562 1    |            punish as a breaker of the law, and unjust. And that is
563 2    |             that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful
564 2    |               justice by the force of law. The liberty which we are
565 2    |              and are only censured by law and opinion. They say also
566 2    |              to give my assent to the law. ~Let this then be one of
567 3    |               permitted to exist; the law will not allow them. And
568 3    |             founding you would make a law to the effect that a friend
569 3    |             have to go abroad for his law and physic because he has
570 3    |               and this is the sort of law, which you will sanction
571 3    |            will be reluctant to go to law. ~Clearly. ~And the musician,
572 4    |             of what nature, which the law implants through education;
573 4    |            opinion in conformity with law about real and false dangers
574 4    |             not the courage which the law ordains, and ought to have
575 4    |              of the opinion which the law ordains about the true nature
576 4    |            his own master and his own law, and at peace with himself;
577 5    |             speak. ~Well, I said, the law says that when a man is
578 5    |              guilt, and what holds at law may hold in argument. ~Then
579 5    |               the rough places of the law; at the same time begging
580 5    |         reluctant to take in hand any law about the possession and
581 5    |           again. ~Certainly not. ~The law which we then enacted was
582 5    |              is one difficulty in our law about women, which we may
583 5    |               Go on; let me see. ~The law, I said, which is the sequel
584 5    |              as the utility of such a law are far more questionable. ~
585 5    |             he replied. ~And the same law will apply to any one of
586 5    |               the Pythian oracle, the law will allow them. ~Quite
587 5    |            obedience to him which the law commands; and is the violator
588 5    |              is a further good in the law; viz., that if a man has
589 5    |                Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:
590 6    |            assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp,
591 6    |            with them in the courts of law or in society. ~They are
592 7    |       compelled to fight in courts of law, or in other places, about
593 7    |            not. ~Then you will make a law that they shall have such
594 7    |            from being a keeper of the law he is converted into a breaker
595 8    |         guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and unite bride
596 8    |           away like children from the law, their father: they have
597 8    |           offices, and will not go to law, or exert himself in any
598 8    |           battling and railing in the law courts or assembly, taking
599 8    |            their wives care about the law? ~Yes, indeed. ~And then
600 8    |           They next proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money
601 8    |          wealth, refuse to curtail by law the extravagance of the
602 8    |          necessity also, because some law forbids you to hold office
603 8    |            that. His life has neither law nor order; and this distracted
604 9    |            the greatest distance from law and order? ~Clearly. ~And
605 9    |               away from the region of law and reason, and taken up
606 9    |               be the intention of the law, which is the ally of the
607 9    |              said, the purpose of the law is manifest. ~From what
608 10   |               There is a principle of law and reason in him which
609 10   |            follow the guidance of the law? ~How do you mean? ~The
610 10   |                 How do you mean? ~The law would say that to be patient
611 10   |              epic or lyric verse, not law and the reason of mankind,
612 10   |     seductions and make our words his law. ~Yes, he said, I quite
613 10   |              to move according to the law of this reversed motion,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
614 Text |               trial before a court of law, laying a most iniquitous


The Sophist
    Part
615 Intro|        recognizes the validity of the law of contradiction. Thirdly,
616 Intro|           gods, about politics, about law, about wrestling, about
617 Intro|              same part of itself. The law of contradiction is as clearly
618 Intro|      regulator as well as a spring, a law of attraction as well as
619 Intro|               in accordance with this law, nor does any existence
620 Intro|              thesis and antithesis, a law of action and of reaction.
621 Intro|           things proceed according to law whether for good or evil.
622 Intro|      understood, we cannot trace this law of action and reaction.
623 Text |             men able to dispute about law and about politics in general?~


The Statesman
    Part
624 Intro|              of heaven, authorized by law. Nothing is more bitter
625 Intro|             is better and higher than law, because he is more able
626 Intro|           willing to acquiesce in any law or custom which will save
627 Intro|         science, which is superior to law and written enactments;
628 Intro|            prerogative; these, as the law declares, know how to give
629 Intro|               freedom and compulsion, law and no law, poverty and
630 Intro|            and compulsion, law and no law, poverty and riches expand
631 Intro|             democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. But
632 Intro|             us either with or without law, and whether they are poor
633 Intro|           state, whether according to law or without law.~‘I do not
634 Intro|           according to law or without law.~‘I do not like the notion,
635 Intro|               good government without law.’~I must explain: Law-making
636 Intro|               of all is, not that the law should rule, but that the
637 Intro|            all, or last for ever. The law is just an ignorant brute
638 Intro|              restriction of a written law. Let me suppose now, that
639 Intro|              or poor, with or without law, and whether the citizens
640 Intro|               but by making his art a law, and, like him, the true
641 Intro|              which is superior to the law. This is scientific government,
642 Intro|              the inviolability of the law, which, though not the best
643 Intro|              a manner contrary to the law, he shall be punished with
644 Intro|            one as the guardian of the law, who was both ignorant and
645 Intro|     interested, and who perverted the law: would not this be a still
646 Intro|              customs and maintain the law, this is called aristocracy,
647 Intro|                or if they neglect the law, oligarchy. When an individual
648 Intro|         individual rules according to law, whether by the help of
649 Intro|             when he rules in spite of law, and is blind with ignorance
650 Intro|             necessary imperfection of law; (6) the relation of the
651 Intro|               will is better than any law. He is the special providence
652 Intro|            personal governor. For the law need not necessarily be
653 Intro|        elements must remain—the fixed law and the living will; the
654 Intro|          applications whether made by law or equity in particular
655 Intro|              God or man, is above the law, and is a law to himself
656 Intro|               above the law, and is a law to himself and to others.
657 Intro|             Greeks as among the Jews, law was a sacred name, the gift
658 Intro|          which is almost an evil. The law sacrifices the individual
659 Intro|            the ideal is a person or a law may fairly be doubted. The
660 Intro|      expression in the deification of law: the ancient Stoic spoke
661 Intro|               a person who was also a law. Nor is it easy for the
662 Intro|         abstraction and interrupt the law, in order that he may present
663 Intro|            mankind that a person is a law, that the higher rule has
664 Intro|             the eye of God and of the law, yet the one may be by nature
665 Intro|              but what is possible.~d. Law is the first principle of
666 Intro|          aware of the imperfection of law in failing to meet the varieties
667 Intro|          seamanship were regulated by law. Much has been said in modern
668 Intro|         contrasts the imperfection of law with the wisdom of the perfect
669 Intro|            little or no regard to the law, attempted to decide with
670 Intro|               not by any principle of law, but by the opinion of another
671 Intro|          judging like himself without law. In the second place, even
672 Intro|            his conduct to any rule of law. For the compact which the
673 Intro|             For the compact which the law makes with men, that they
674 Intro|         protected if they observe the law in their dealings with one
675 Intro|             shall be protected by the law if they act rightly in their
676 Intro|               principal advantages of law is not merely that it enforces
677 Intro|               is the exception to the law, conforms to fixed rules
678 Intro|          accustomed use of words. The law which to the Greek was the
679 Text |           priestly class, who, as the law declares, know how to give
680 Text |      involuntary, poverty and riches, law and the absence of law,
681 Text |                law and the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply
682 Text |     compulsory submission, of written law or the absence of law, can
683 Text |         written law or the absence of law, can be a right one?~YOUNG
684 Text |        whether they rule according to law or without law, over willing
685 Text |           according to law or without law, over willing or unwilling
686 Text |          thing of all is not that the law should rule, but that a
687 Text |            Why?~STRANGER: Because the law does not perfectly comprehend
688 Text |         course not.~STRANGER: But the law is always striving to make
689 Text |              SOCRATES: Certainly; the law treats us all precisely
690 Text |           True.~STRANGER: Then if the law is not the perfection of
691 Text |              restriction of a written law.~YOUNG SOCRATES: So I should
692 Text |             in observing the original law, neither himself giving
693 Text |              the citizen, contrary to law and custom, is compelled
694 Text |               but by making his art a law,—preserves the lives of
695 Text |              which is superior to the law? Nor can wise rulers ever
696 Text |        according to the letter of the law and the ancient customs
697 Text |               one who is qualified by law may inform against him,
698 Text |               contrary to the written law, he is to be punished with
699 Text |               be regulated by written law, we were to appoint as the
700 Text |              any adherence to written law?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
701 Text |            the multitude to break the law in any respect whatever.~
702 Text |         individual rules according to law in imitation of him who
703 Text |              if he rules according to law, we give him the same name,
704 Text |              ruler governs neither by law nor by custom, but following
705 Text |            distinction of ruling with law or without law, applies
706 Text |            ruling with law or without law, applies to this as well
707 Text |              for us, the principle of law and the absence of law will
708 Text |             of law and the absence of law will bisect them all.~YOUNG
709 Text |             without the restraints of law, democracy is the form in
710 Text |            power of a guardian of the law which ministers to the royal
711 Text |            that union is implanted by law, and that this is the medicine


The Symposium
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712 Intro|           physical; or recognises one law of love which pervades them
713 Text |           boys should be forbidden by law, because their future is
714 Text |            this matter the good are a law to themselves, and the coarser
715 Text |             very straightforward; the law is simply in favour of these
716 Text |       together, having each of them a law, and the lover thinks that
717 Text |              only in obedience to the law; but they are satisfied
718 Text |        reality new, according to that law of succession by which all


Theaetetus
    Part
719 Intro|              first, change, secondly, law or measure pervading the
720 Intro|         proved by the rhetoric of the law courts, which cannot give
721 Intro|                or of a state, or of a law of duty, or of a divine
722 Intro|      Consciousness, Conscience, Will, Law, Knowledge, Internal and
723 Intro|       knowledge, the unity of God and law. The difference between
724 Text |               one another; there is a law which binds us one to the
725 Text |            friend, if true opinion in law courts and knowledge are


Timaeus
    Part
726 Intro|          Observe again, what care the law took in the pursuit of wisdom,
727 Intro|         Egyptian record spoke. As the law of Solon prescribes, we
728 Intro|             nature. Having given this law to his creatures, that he
729 Intro|             which we call auburn. The law of proportion, however,
730 Intro|                in accordance with the law of attraction, it escapes
731 Intro|              justice, symbolizing the law of compensation; are of
732 Intro|         called into existence to give law and order to the old. But
733 Intro|               in the light of number. Law and morality also found
734 Intro|            things, and seemed to give law to all things; nature was
735 Intro|              nature was never that of law interrupted by exceptions,—
736 Intro|             or, as we might say, gave law and variety to the material
737 Intro|             is equivalent to truth or law, and need not imply a human
738 Intro|          divine nature, which, having law in itself, gives law to
739 Intro|           having law in itself, gives law to all besides and is the
740 Intro|               of the term, but rather law, order, harmony, like the
741 Intro|              which he attributes to a law of equalization in nature,
742 Intro|       discoveries of modern times—the law of gravitation, and the
743 Intro|     circulation of the blood.~(1) The law of gravitation, according
744 Intro|              according to Plato, is a law, not only of the attraction
745 Intro|             up in the single idea of ‘law.’ To feel habitually that
746 Text |              and are commanded by the law to devote themselves solely
747 Text |                do you observe how our law from the very first made
748 Text |           Solon, and equally with his law, we will bring them into
749 Text |               revolves according to a law of number. Moreover, when
750 Text |            the palate, and is, as the law testifies, a substance dear
751 Text |            called auburn (Greek). The law of proportion, however,
752 Text |               and grows up in us by a law of necessity, does not admit