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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| original accusation. The question may be asked, Why will he
2 Intro| provided him. But leaving this question, which does not admit of
3 Intro| Republic.)~The second question, whether Plato meant to
4 Text | of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if I could
5 Text | Meletus, and let me ask a question of you. You think a great
6 Text | But suppose I ask you a question: How about horses? Does
7 Text | I will ask you another question—by Zeus I will: Which is
8 Text | Answer, friend, I say; the question is one which may be easily
9 Text | please to answer the next question: Can a man believe in spiritual
10 Text | afraid of death is another question, of which I will not now
11 Text | But, setting aside the question of public opinion, there
Charmides
Part
12 PreS | rapidity and abruptness of question and answer, the constant
13 PreS | the subtle adjustment of question and answer, the lively play
14 PreS | lending itself to the form of question and answer, and so the ease
15 PreS | fuller discussion of the question for another place, I will
16 PreS | the space to go into the question fully; but I will briefly
17 PreS | Peripatetic School, is a question which has never been determined,
18 Intro| it is implied that this question, although it has not yet
19 Text | was just going to ask a question. And at that moment all
20 Text | either yes, or no, to the question which I had asked: For,
21 Text | better begin by asking you a question; for if temperance abides
22 Text | and now let me repeat my question—Do you admit, as I was just
23 Text | Critias, to answer a similar question about temperance, or wisdom,
24 Text | opinion in answer to the question which I asked, never minding
25 Text | challenge or determine the question at issue; and he made an
26 Text | Just answer me that small question. Do you mean a knowledge
Cratylus
Part
27 Intro| furnish any answer to the question of Hermogenes, which is
28 Intro| That is a very difficult question.’ O, my dear Hermogenes,
29 Intro| And let me ask another question,—If we had no faculty of
30 Intro| have been given to this question, either in ancient or in
31 Intro| cannot be eliminated.~The question, ‘whether falsehood is impossible,’
32 Intro| These words suggest a question of deeper interest than
33 Intro| Neither need we raise the question whether the laws of language,
34 Intro| are not considering the question of its utility to the beginner
35 Intro| there is no answer to the question; or no other answer but
36 Intro| Upon these depends the question whether it will bear the
37 Text | once able to answer your question about the correctness of
38 Text | we had better leave the question open until we have heard
39 Text | suppose that I ask a similar question about names: will you answer
40 Text | care to know, is the next question.~HERMOGENES: Certainly,
41 Text | dialecticians, and able to put the question (erotan), for eirein is
42 Text | certainly a most difficult question.~SOCRATES: My dear Hermogenes,
43 Text | Hipponicus, you ask a solemn question; there is a serious and
44 Text | And here I will ask you a question: Suppose that we had no
45 Text | let us have done with this question and proceed to another,
46 Text | and many others say, is a question hard to determine; and no
Crito
Part
47 Intro| should be dismissed: the only question is whether he would be right
48 Intro| never intended to answer the question of casuistry, but only to
49 Text | fairest way of considering the question? Shall I return to your
50 Text | premisses I proceed to argue the question whether I ought or ought
51 Text | far prevailed, the only question which remains to be considered
52 Text | be put in the form of a question:—Ought a man to do what
53 Text | of all answer this very question: Are we right in saying
Euthydemus
Part
54 Intro| that the brothers shall question Cleinias. ‘Cleinias,’ says
55 Intro| poor notion. He proceeds to question Cleinias. The result of
56 Intro| there is no answer to the question, ‘good in what?’ At length
57 Intro| is to teach it. This is a question which will hereafter be
58 Intro| can be taught—from this question he is relieved by the ingenuous
59 Text | youth, overpowered by the question blushed, and in his perplexity
60 Text | on asking another similar question, which might be compared
61 Text | heavens, I said; and your last question was so good!~Like all our
62 Text | similar trick in the second question, when they asked you whether
63 Text | of Axiochus, let me put a question to you: Do not all men desire
64 Text | happy?—that is the next question. Shall we not be happy if
65 Text | perhaps, is even a more simple question than the first, for there
66 Text | the previous state of the question. You remember, I said, our
67 Text | they would approach the question, and where they would start
68 Text | replied; there can be no question of that. Do you, Dionysodorus,
69 Text | therefore if I ask a very stupid question: if there be no falsehood
70 Text | said, I will ask my stupid question: If there is no such thing
71 Text | you are master. Put the question.~Are the things which have
72 Text | resumed the enquiry, and a question of this sort was asked:
73 Text | were to ask you a similar question about that, you would say—
74 Text | throw off all restraint; no question in fact was too bad for
75 Text | ashamed, Socrates, of asking a question when you are asked one?~
76 Text | Yes, I said; but if the question which you ask in one sense
77 Text | will answer more than the question; for I did not ask you,
78 Text | have always known; but the question is, where did I learn that
79 Text | Let me ask you one little question more, said Dionysodorus,
80 Text | said Ctesippus, but the question which I ask is whether all
81 Text | at having to answer this question, and I thought that I was
82 Text | intentionally missed the last question; for in general you and
Euthyphro
Part
83 Intro| satisfactory answer to the question, ‘What is piety?’ ‘Doing
84 Intro| of Euthyphro, raises the question in another manner: ‘Is all
85 Intro| way for an answer to the question which he has raised; but
86 Intro| Here is one answer to the question, ‘Why Socrates was put to
87 Text | proceeding against him. The real question is whether the murdered
88 Text | given, my friend, to the question, What is ‘piety’? When asked,
89 Text | you have not answered the question which I asked. For I certainly
90 Text | some act which is called in question, and which by some is affirmed
91 Text | SOCRATES: That was the sort of question which I meant to raise when
92 Text | you did. I asked you the question about the nature of the
93 Text | much fewer words the chief question which I asked, Euthyphro,
94 Text | Now, as the asker of a question is necessarily dependent
The First Alcibiades
Part
95 Pre | how we should regard the question of the genuineness of a
96 Intro| grounds, and therefore the question of justice and injustice
97 Text | to ask you the very same question—What do you want? And what
98 Text | shipbuilding, for example, when the question is what sort of ships they
99 Text | to be able to answer the question? Is it not disgraceful?~
100 Text | ALCIBIADES: That is an awkward question; for certainly, even if
101 Text | Cleinias met his end, the question was one of justice—this
102 Text | ask, and you answer the question?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
103 Text | speaking? I who put the question, or you who answer me?~ALCIBIADES:
104 Text | generally: whenever there is a question and answer, who is the speaker,—
105 Text | I comprehend in a single question, and now you will manifestly
106 Text | there?~SOCRATES: Is that a question which a magnanimous soul
107 Text | were to ask me the same question about the eyes, I should
108 Text | It is.~SOCRATES: Now the question which I asked was whether
Gorgias
Part
109 Intro| In the first division the question is asked—What is rhetoric?
110 Intro| manner of approaching a question; he is quite ‘one of Socrates’
111 Intro| heard the other side of the question, and he listens to the paradoxes,
112 Intro| Polus.~SOCRATES: Put the question to him, Chaerephon.~CHAEREPHON:
113 Intro| Chaerephon.~CHAEREPHON: What question?~SOCRATES: Who is he?—such
114 Intro| SOCRATES: Who is he?—such a question as would elicit from a man
115 Intro| but not how to answer a question. He wishes that Gorgias
116 Intro| enough, and replies to the question asked by Chaerephon,—that
117 Intro| there is therefore a further question: which of the two sorts
118 Intro| Will you ask me another question—What is cookery? ‘What is
119 Intro| There remains the other question: Is a guilty man better
120 Intro| proceeds to ask the same question of Socrates himself. For
121 Intro| And we must ask the same question about Pericles, and Cimon,
122 Intro| must be included. If the question could have been put to him,
123 Intro| this mode of stating the question is really opposed both to
124 Intro| fitting occasion, on some question of humanity or truth or
125 Intro| Republic he raises this question, but it is not really discussed;
126 Intro| into a future. We ask the question, Where were men before birth?
127 Intro| them after death? The first question is unfamiliar to us, and
128 Intro| probably the inventor.~The question is then asked, under which
129 Intro| answer depends on another question: What use did the children
130 Text | in my house might put any question to him, and that he would
131 Text | SOCRATES: I mean such a question as would elicit from him,
132 Text | POLUS: Ask:—~CHAEREPHON: My question is this: If Gorgias had
133 Text | not exactly answered the question which he was asked.~GORGIAS:
134 Text | that was no answer to the question: nobody asked what was the
135 Text | to you, and ask the same question,—what are we to call you,
136 Text | better; please to answer me a question:—you would allow that there
137 Text | Gorgias, to imagine that this question is asked of you by them
138 Text | right in asking this further question: If I asked, ‘What sort
139 Text | reason for asking this second question would be, that there are
140 Text | the case of the painter, a question has arisen which is a very
141 Text | fair way of putting the question?~GORGIAS: I think so.~SOCRATES:
142 Text | Then, if you approve the question, Gorgias, what is the answer?~
143 Text | repeating a seemingly plain question; for I ask not in order
144 Text | Then let me raise another question; there is such a thing as ‘
145 Text | they would be too modest to question you. And therefore when
146 Text | from any interest in the question at issue. And sometimes
147 Text | begin. and ask of me any question which you like.~SOCRATES:
148 Text | inferior on this account is a question which we will hereafter
149 Text | advantage in going on with the question, but if not, I would leave
150 Text | answer me, Socrates, the same question which Gorgias, as you suppose,
151 Text | proceeded to ask a further question: Whether I do not think
152 Text | flatterers?~SOCRATES: Is that a question or the beginning of a speech?~
153 Text | speech?~POLUS: I am asking a question.~SOCRATES: Then my answer
154 Text | of your own, or asking a question of me.~POLUS: I am asking
155 Text | me.~POLUS: I am asking a question of you.~SOCRATES: Yes, my
156 Text | answer as well as ask that question.~SOCRATES: Well, Polus,
157 Text | SOCRATES: Let me ask a question of you: When you speak of
158 Text | let us proceed to the next question; which is, Whether the greatest
159 Text | arguing conventionally a question which is to be determined
160 Text | that is why I repeated the question,—What is the superior? I
161 Text | man. And now, answer my question.~CALLICLES: I answer, that
162 Text | head? Shall I pursue the question? And here, Callicles, I
163 Text | proceed, determine this question for me:—There is something,
164 Text | has any sense at all, what question can be more serious than
Ion
Part
165 Text | should like to ask you a question: Does your art extend to
166 Text | until you have answered a question which I have to ask. On
167 Text | But let me ask a prior question: You admit that there are
Laches
Part
168 Intro| would rather not decide the question by a plurality of votes:
169 Intro| thorough way of examining the question will be to ask, ‘What is
170 Intro| this, or any other military question, may be settled by asking, ‘
171 Intro| this, as in the preliminary question, the truth is parted between
172 Text | there not arise a prior question about the nature of the
173 Text | Why, Socrates, is not the question whether young men ought
174 Text | but there is also a prior question, which I may illustrate
175 Text | detain Laches and Nicias, and question them. I would have you say
176 Text | in asking ourselves the question which was first proposed
177 Text | you have answered not the question which I intended to ask,
178 Text | to blame in having put my question badly, and that this was
179 Text | if we are to answer the question. And yet I cannot say that
180 Text | Socrates?~SOCRATES: That is a question which you must ask of himself.~
181 Text | I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates;
182 Text | to show. Let me ask you a question: Do not physicians know
183 Text | why I should not; and my question will do for both of us.~
184 Text | the consideration of the question.~LACHES: I will if you think
185 Text | part of courage; but our question extended to the whole nature
Laws
Book
186 1 | quite right in asking the question, for there certainly is
187 1 | conquered by the worse, is a question which requires more discussion,
188 1 | and I ought not to raise a question of words as to whether this
189 1 | all join in asking this question of Tyrtaeus: O most divine
190 1 | Megillus. That is not an easy question to answer; still I should
191 1 | exonerates the practice in question from impropriety. When a
192 1 | a single chorus—when the question is put in that form, we
193 1 | passing on to some other question of law?~Megillus. O Athenian
194 1 | and in particular that question of convivial entertainment,
195 1 | in view do you ask that question?~Athenian. Nothing as yet;
196 1 | show. And let me ask you a question:—Do we not distinguish two
197 2 | One way of considering the question will be to imagine a festival
198 2 | several competitors; the question is absurd.~Athenian. Well,
199 2 | answer, shall I answer this question which you deem so absurd?~
200 2 | children are to determine the question, they will decide for the
201 2 | the victor?—that is the question.~Cleinias. Yes.~Athenian.
202 2 | answer is contained in your question; and I understand and accept
203 3 | the Spartan.~Megillus. The question which you ask is not easily
204 3 | at a real and important question.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian.
205 3 | First, in reference to the question in hand:—If the then commanders
206 3 | us then once more ask the question, To what end has all this
207 4 | let me proceed to another question: Who are to be the colonists?
208 4 | ought he to answer this question? Shall I give his answer?~
209 4 | better able to answer your question: shall I?~Cleinias. By all
210 4 | or few, is a very foolish question; the best form, and not
211 5 | impress upon himself the question—”What do I want?” and “Do
212 6 | inhabitants of the country, if the question be of a mina, let them submit
213 6 | which naturally elicited a question about my meaning from you.
214 6 | Cleinias. A very pertinent question, Stranger.~Athenian. And
215 7 | Some one may ask this very question, and quite rightly, too.~
216 7 | show you my meaning by a question, and do you please to answer
217 8 | be supposed to argue the question in his own mind:—Who are
218 8 | custom. There might arise a question about the manner of them—
219 8 | them? The answer to this question might be easily discovered,
220 9 | Athenian. That is a very fair question. In the first place, let
221 9 | involuntary injustice. Leaving the question of names, about which we
222 9 | determine in all cases—the question of fact. And then, again,
223 10 | Athenian. Or, to put the question in another way, making answer
224 10 | the argument let us put a question.~Cleinias. What question?~
225 10 | question.~Cleinias. What question?~Athenian. If we were to
226 10 | movement of mind?—To this question it is not easy to give an
227 10 | now let me ask you another question.~Cleinias. What are you
228 12 | again bring him back to the question at issue. On the other hand,
229 12 | creature, we will ask a question:—O wonderful being, and
230 12 | and nurture, which is the question coming to the surface again.
Lysis
Part
231 Intro| given in the Lysis to the question, ‘What is Friendship?’ any
232 Intro| in the Charmides to the question, ‘What is Temperance?’ There
233 Intro| description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation
234 Intro| of Lysis, asks him a new question: ‘What is friendship? You,
235 Intro| consists in asking a leading question which can only be answered
236 Intro| to the intention of the question: ‘Your father and mother
237 Intro| proposes at last to refer the question to some older person.~SOME
238 Intro| unrequited friendship? This question, which, like many others,
239 Intro| view, we may regard the question in a more general way. Friendship
240 Intro| to be friendship.~Another question 9) may be raised, whether
241 Intro| The answer to this latter question is rather perplexing, and
242 Intro| the result.~Yet another question, 10). Admitting that friendships
243 Text | hearing him: and now having a question put to him by you, behold
244 Text | But I want to ask you a question about this, for you have
245 Text | we know how to answer the question ‘Who are friends?’ for the
Menexenus
Part
246 Pre | how we should regard the question of the genuineness of a
247 Intro| evidence seems to leave the question of authorship in doubt.
Meno
Part
248 Intro| Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether
249 Intro| of teaching, the original question of the teachableness of
250 Intro| is willing to argue the question, as mathematicians say,
251 Intro| the consideration of the question ‘whether virtue is teachable,’
252 Intro| an attempt to answer the question, Can virtue be taught? No
253 Intro| either ask or answer such a question in modern times. But in
254 Intro| further effort that the question of the teachableness of
255 Intro| predicate can be applied.~The question which Plato has raised respecting
256 Text | think that I can answer your question. For I literally do not
257 Text | Socrates, in answering your question. Let us take first the virtue
258 Text | he who would answer the question, ‘What is virtue?’ would
259 Text | as yet take hold of the question as I could wish.~SOCRATES:
260 Text | that some one asked you the question which I asked before: Meno,
261 Text | a person asked you this question either about figure or colour,
262 Text | And then he might put the question in another form: Meno, he
263 Text | Could you not answer that question, Meno? I wish that you would
264 Text | again and repeat the same question: What is virtue? for otherwise,
265 Text | Ought I not to ask the question over again; for can any
266 Text | to ask over again the old question, What is virtue? Am I not
267 Text | intention. I only asked the question from habit; but if you can
268 Text | rather return to my original question, Whether in seeking to acquire
269 Text | a little, and allow the question ‘Whether virtue is given
270 Text | made a quick end of this question: if virtue is of such a
271 Text | Certainly.~SOCRATES: The next question is, whether virtue is knowledge
272 Text | that appears to be the question which comes next in order.~
273 Text | friend Meno in answering our question, Who are the teachers? Consider
274 Text | trouble you with one more question. When we say that we should
275 Text | city of Athens. But the question is whether they were also
276 Text | virtue can be taught, is the question which we have been discussing.
277 Text | to another? That is the question which I and Meno have been
278 Text | have they to do with the question?~SOCRATES: Because they
279 Text | excluded, then came the question whether virtue is acquired
Parmenides
Part
280 Intro| but will you answer me a question? I should like to know,
281 Intro| mentioned?’ ‘That is not an easy question to answer.’ ‘I should imagine
282 Intro| he should consider every question on the negative as well
283 Intro| instance to Zeno’s familiar question of the ‘one and many.’ Here,
284 Intro| motion? The answer to this question will throw a light upon
285 Intro| Once more, let us ask the question, If one is not, what happens
286 Intro| undefined still. The same question is revived from the objective
287 Text | he said, you have asked a question which is not easily answered.~
288 Text | what do you say of another question?~What question?~I imagine
289 Text | of another question?~What question?~I imagine that the way
290 Text | things, or to consider the question that way; but only in reference
291 Text | review, any new aspect of the question appears.~I shall be very
292 Text | would you say of another question? Can the one have come into
293 Text | others?~Let us ask that question.~Must not the one be distinct
294 Text | respect of one? That is the question.~Yes.~Do not the words ‘
295 Text | follow.~Let us ask that question.~In the first place, the
Phaedo
Part
296 Intro| Aesop reminds Cebes of a question which had been asked by
297 Intro| Enough of them: the real question is, What is the nature of
298 Intro| remarks, involves the whole question of natural growth or causation;
299 Intro| they bury him? That is a question which he refuses to entertain,
300 Intro| But in our own day the question has been reopened, and it
301 Intro| perplexed at this whole question, which is sometimes fairly
302 Intro| soul, we must still ask the question of Socrates, ‘What is that
303 Intro| history of the human mind. The question, ‘Whence come our abstract
304 Intro| answer to the ‘very serious question’ of generation and destruction
305 Intro| the other hand, raises the question about harmony and the lyre,
306 Intro| answer can be given to this question. And it is better to resign
307 Text | For it reminds me of a question which has been asked by
308 Text | replied.~There is another question, which will probably throw
309 Text | Suppose we consider the question whether the souls of men
310 Text | let us consider the whole question, not in relation to man
311 Text | questions. If you put a question to a person in a right way,
312 Text | with such natures, beyond question.~And there is no difficulty,
313 Text | inciting the other to put the question which we wanted to have
314 Text | bid me, I will venture to question you, and then I shall not
315 Text | beginning to ask myself the same question: What argument can I ever
316 Text | about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to
317 Text | are raising a tremendous question, Cebes, involving the whole
318 Text | to any one who asks the question, I may safely reply, That
319 Text | ask you to consider the question from another point of view,
320 Text | and do not you answer my question in the words in which I
321 Text | True.~Then, Cebes, beyond question, the soul is immortal and
322 Text | There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two
Phaedrus
Part
323 Intro| preliminary to the other question— How is the non-lover to
324 Intro| above us, let us ask that question: since by rational conversation
325 Intro| can give no answer to a question, and has only a deceitful
326 Intro| We may raise the same question in another form: Is marriage
327 Intro| would be one answer to this question: the practice and feeling
328 Intro| him to the greatest. The question of a reading, or a grammatical
329 Text | condemn in others; but as our question is whether the lover or
330 Text | answer you.~PHAEDRUS: Put the question.~SOCRATES: Is not rhetoric,
331 Text | bring the really important question into the light of day, which
332 Text | said at first, when the question is of justice and good,
333 Text | justice and good, or is a question in which men are concerned
334 Text | opinions of men?~PHAEDRUS: Your question needs no answer; but I wish
335 Text | and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence.
336 Text | know anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker
337 Text | be allowed to ask you a question: Would a husbandman, who
Philebus
Part
338 Intro| analyzed, to the good. (1) The question is asked, whether pleasure
339 Intro| means to discuss the common question—how a sensible object can
340 Intro| requested to answer the question himself. That he will, if
341 Intro| a very serious and awful question, which may be prefaced by
342 Intro| restoration? That is a further question, and admitting, as we must,
343 Intro| pain and pleasure.) Another question is raised: May not pleasures,
344 Intro| immoderate? We may answer the question by an illustration: Purity
345 Intro| impure. But there is another question:—Pleasure is affirmed by
346 Intro| first recapitulating the question at issue.~Philebus affirmed
347 Intro| the controversy another question was asked: ‘Do pleasures
348 Intro| moderns have added a further question:— ‘Whose pleasure? The pleasure
349 Intro| too far removed from the question which we are now pursuing.~
350 Intro| can give no answer to the question, ‘What is that common quality
351 Intro| a truism.~Let us ask the question in another form. What is
352 Intro| are the parts. Still the question recurs, ‘In what does the
353 Intro| utility than on any other. The question Will such and such an action
354 Intro| is another form of the question which will be more attractive
355 Intro| philosophy?’ is analogous to the question asked in the Philebus, ‘
356 Intro| gradations of thought. The question of pleasure and the relation
357 Intro| simple manner in which the question of cause and effect and
358 Text | Protarchus, have my own question asked of me by you?~PROTARCHUS:
359 Text | by you?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Ask me whether
360 Text | is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.~PROTARCHUS:
361 Text | PHILEBUS: Yes, that is a question which Protarchus and I have
362 Text | arrived at the answer to the question which, as you say, you have
363 Text | SOCRATES: And the precise question to which the previous discussion
364 Text | That is a very serious question, Philebus, to which Socrates
365 Text | allowed to go home until the question was settled; and you agreed,
366 Text | now consider well; for the question to which I invite your attention
367 Text | And now what is the next question, and how came we hither?
368 Text | will allow me to ask you a question before you answer?~PHILEBUS:
369 Text | must beg you to answer the question.~PROTARCHUS: Socrates is
370 Text | solemnity, when I asked the question to what class mind and knowledge
371 Text | Protarchus, by asking a question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
372 Text | question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Whether all this
373 Text | fire?~PROTARCHUS: That is a question which does not deserve an
374 Text | That again, Socrates, is a question which does not deserve to
375 Text | Well, tell me, is this question worth asking?~PROTARCHUS:
376 Text | asking?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: May our body
377 Text | heavens, Socrates, that is a question which is not easily answered;
378 Text | the occasion of raising a question?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
379 Text | question?~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: Whether we ought
380 Text | always wondering at the question which has now been raised.~
381 Text | into more precise terms the question which has arisen about pleasure
382 Text | PROTARCHUS: Yes; that is the question.~SOCRATES: You mean that
383 Text | under the tree?’ This is the question which he may be supposed
384 Text | there arises a further question.~PROTARCHUS: What is it?~
385 Text | SOCRATES: Answer me another question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~
386 Text | question.~PROTARCHUS: What question?~SOCRATES: A just and pious
387 Text | Socrates?~SOCRATES: Your question, Protarchus, does not help
388 Text | Socrates, do we ask the question at all? I do not see the
389 Text | what do you say of another question:—have we not heard that
390 Text | they mean, by putting a question.~PROTARCHUS: Ask, and I
391 Text | that you would repeat your question.~SOCRATES: I mean, O my
392 Text | cases I should ask the same question.~PROTARCHUS: Why do you
393 Text | PROTARCHUS: That is the very question which the argument is asking.~
394 Text | how would you decide this question, Protarchus?~PROTARCHUS:
395 Text | about wisdom I ask the same question; can you conceive that any
396 Text | PROTARCHUS: Here is another question which may be easily answered;
Protagoras
Part
397 Intro| to Protagoras, asks the question, ‘What he will make of Hippocrates.’
398 Intro| Socrates, and then the old question is repeated, ‘Whether the
399 Intro| the determination of this question the identity of virtue and
400 Intro| disadvantage when subjected to ‘the question’ by Protagoras. He succeeds
401 Intro| to answer certainly the question of Protagoras, how the two
402 Intro| from the poets. The second question, whether the virtues are
403 Intro| Lysis, all touch on the question of the relation of knowledge
404 Intro| there, although the same question is discussed, ‘whether virtue
405 Intro| Hippocrates, the answer to the question is supplied out of the doctrine
406 Text | yet I need hardly ask the question, for I know that you have
407 Text | were to ask this further question: And how about yourself?
408 Text | in the answer a further question is involved: Of what does
409 Text | But when the soul is in question, which you hold to be of
410 Text | and I like to answer a question which is fairly put. If
411 Text | summoned as advisers; when the question is one of ship-building,
412 Text | of the arts. But when the question is an affair of state, then
413 Text | or shall I argue out the question?~To this several of the
414 Text | mankind in general, when the question relates to carpentering
415 Text | but when honesty is in question, or some other political
416 Text | all? In the answer to this question is contained the only solution
417 Text | but then when one has a question to ask of any of them, like
418 Text | but when he is asked a question he can answer briefly; and
419 Text | want to ask of you a little question, which if you will only
420 Text | angry at his putting such a question, and should say, ‘Peace,
421 Text | me; for I only asked the question; Protagoras gave the answer.’
422 Text | ask and answer—not, when a question is asked, slipping away
423 Text | of his hearers forget the question at issue (not that Socrates
424 Text | at answering the precise question asked of him, you and I
425 Text | propose to transfer the question which you and I have been
426 Text | object, and come back to the question about which I was asking
427 Text | If I am not mistaken the question was this: Are wisdom and
428 Text | pleasant they are good; and my question would imply that pleasure
429 Text | suppose that they repeat their question, What account do you give
430 Text | And then I should take the question from the opposite point
431 Text | so good as to answer me a question: Do not the same magnitudes
432 Text | knowledge of measuring, when the question is one of excess and defect,
433 Text | knowledge of number, when the question is of odd and even? The
434 Text | demonstrative answer to the question which you asked of me and
435 Text | time when you asked the question, if you remember, both of
436 Text | only want to ask one more question, I said. I want to know
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437 1 | difficult. And this is a question which I should like to ask
438 1 | Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with
439 1 | was why I asked you the question, I replied, because I see
440 1 | true, but may I ask another question?-What do you consider to
441 1 | Well, there is another question: By friends and enemies
442 1 | your way of putting the question, no one can answer you.
443 1 | be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some
444 1 | that I should ask you a question: Is the physician, taken
445 1 | Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought
446 1 | others? Let me ask you a question: Are not the several arts
447 1 | the stronger. This latter question need not be further discussed
448 1 | good as answer yet one more question? Does the just man try to
449 1 | is not to the point. My question is only whether the just
450 1 | Then I will repeat the question which I asked before, in
451 1 | the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to
452 1 | will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that
453 1 | meaning when I asked the question whether the end of anything
454 1 | I would rather ask the question more generally, and only
455 1 | when there arose a further question about the comparative advantages
456 2 | the consideration of this question, unless I hear the contrary
457 2 | all means not to let the question drop, but to proceed in
458 2 | said, now I understand: the question which you would have me
459 3 | condition to answer this question at present, my friend. ~
460 3 | to be said about men is a question which we cannot determine
461 3 | may be more than this in question: I really do not know as
462 3 | or rather, has not this question been decided by the rule
463 3 | But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure
464 3 | recovery was out of the question, he passed his entire life
465 3 | then let us raise a further question, whether this dieting of
466 3 | but I should like to put a question to you: Ought there not
467 3 | however, note that in the same question you join two things which
468 3 | which is my answer to your question); for he is good who has
469 3 | should be in harmony? ~Beyond question. ~And the harmonious soul
470 3 | said; then what is the next question? Must we not ask who are
471 4 | Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates,
472 4 | will be agreed as to the question who are to rule, that again
473 4 | would claim the palm-the question is not so easily answered. ~
474 4 | Exactly. ~Let us look at the question from another point of view:
475 4 | principles or not? ~An easy question! Nay, rather, Socrates,
476 4 | accurate solution of this question; the true method is another
477 4 | None whatever. ~But the question is not quite so easy when
478 4 | as if he had been asked a question? ~Very true. ~And what would
479 4 | assuredly. ~But a further question arises: Is passion different
480 4 | Assuredly. ~Still our old question of the comparative advantage
481 4 | judgment, Socrates, the question has now become ridiculous.
482 4 | described? ~Yes, I said, the question is, as you say, ridiculous.
483 5 | evil. And now, since the question is still undetermined, and
484 5 | glad that I had laid this question to sleep, and was reflecting
485 5 | yourself and answer the question in your own way: What sort
486 5 | be put into the form of a question, I said: Are dogs divided
487 5 | First, then, whether the question is to be put in jest or
488 5 | objections? ~That is not an easy question to answer when asked suddenly;
489 5 | illustration we were to ask the question whether there is not an
490 5 | now, and we will ask you a question: When you spoke of a nature
491 5 | should like to ask you a question. ~What is it? ~Would you
492 5 | cobbling? ~What a ridiculous question! ~You have answered me,
493 5 | permission, to pass over the question of possibility at present.
494 5 | measure; and hereafter the question of possibility. ~I have
495 5 | most beneficial? that is a question which I put to you, because
496 5 | hereafter consider this question, but that, as at present
497 5 | You have anticipated the question which I was about to suggest. ~
498 5 | entirely forget the other question which at the commencement
499 5 | let us now turn to the question of possibility and ways
500 5 | should like to ask him a question: Does he who has knowledge