Charmides
    Part
  1 Intro|           dialectical and rhetorical arts of Critias, who is the grown-up
  2 Text |              houses, and so of other arts, which all have their different
  3 Text |             be done according to the arts or sciences, and no one
  4 Text |             work of any of the other arts,—do they not each of them


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|         manner by the analogy of the arts. Was there a correctness
  6 Intro|       examined by the analogy of the arts. Words are works of art
  7 Intro|    correctness by the analogy of the arts, and then, as in the Republic,
  8 Intro|           the first invention of the arts in general, we only entertain
  9 Intro|            logic and grammar, sister arts, preserve and enlarge the
 10 Intro|              of this as of the other arts, we cannot say: Only we
 11 Text |         imitations of this kind; the arts which have to do with them
 12 Text |              up among men like other arts? Let me explain what I mean:


Euthydemus
    Part
 13 Intro|              us wise? Not in special arts, such as cobbling or carpentering,
 14 Text |             or political art all the arts, including the art of the
 15 Text |       authority over the subordinate arts, and I were to ask you a
 16 Text |           authority over the subject arts—what does that do? Does
 17 Text |               and teach them all the arts,—carpentering, and cobbling,
 18 Text |            art of the general, noble arts?~CRITO: Certainly they are,
 19 Text |            see that in each of these arts the many are ridiculous


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 20 Text |        recollection, you learned the arts of writing, of playing on
 21 Text |             of weaving and the other arts we take care of the things
 22 Text |          regarded in relation to the arts which they practise they
 23 Text |              is the reason why their arts are accounted vulgar, and


Gorgias
    Part
 24 Intro|              noblest of experimental arts,’ etc., replies Polus, in
 25 Intro|       medicine, and other particular arts, are also concerned with
 26 Intro|              distinction between the arts which deal with words, and
 27 Intro|             deal with words, and the arts which have to do with external
 28 Intro|           and divides all productive arts into two classes: (1) arts
 29 Intro|           arts into two classes: (1) arts which may be carried on
 30 Intro|       carried on in silence; and (2) arts which have to do with words,
 31 Intro|             as rhetoric. Even in the arts which are concerned with
 32 Intro|              rhetoric from the other arts which have to do with words? ‘
 33 Intro|             would you rank them? The arts will come to you in a body,
 34 Intro|              because there are other arts which persuade, such as
 35 Intro|             the old confusion of the arts and the virtues;—nor can
 36 Intro|             appearance of them; real arts and sciences, and the simulations
 37 Intro|           the soul and body have two arts waiting upon them, first
 38 Intro|        Corresponding with these four arts or sciences there are four
 39 Intro|            hurt. And there are three arts which heal these evils—trading,
 40 Intro|         study pleasure only, and the arts which are concerned with
 41 Intro|           the argument. Which of the arts then are flatteries? Flute-playing,
 42 Intro|              who is not studying the arts which will preserve him
 43 Intro|          justice. But how many other arts are there which also save
 44 Intro|              any practiser of saving arts. But is not virtue something
 45 Intro|              two. The teacher of the arts takes money, but the teacher
 46 Intro|              illusive analogy of the arts and the virtues also continues.
 47 Intro|           the general analogy of the arts and the virtues, the analogy
 48 Intro|       precarious as pleasure.~b. The arts or sciences, when pursued
 49 Intro|      parodies of wise men, and their arts are the parodies of true
 50 Intro|             are the parodies of true arts and sciences. All that they
 51 Intro|            art of persuasion, of all arts the best, for to it all
 52 Intro|     degradation of philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured maiden,
 53 Intro|              world begins again, and arts and laws are slowly and
 54 Text |           Chaerephon, there are many arts among mankind which are
 55 Text |              proficient in different arts, and the best persons in
 56 Text |             best persons in the best arts. And our friend Gorgias
 57 Text |           that it was the noblest of arts?~SOCRATES: Yes, indeed,
 58 Text |        Gorgias, is true of the other arts:—all of them treat of discourse
 59 Text |         discourse, and all the other arts treat of discourse, do you
 60 Text |      discourse, do you not call them arts of rhetoric?~GORGIAS: Because,
 61 Text |           the knowledge of the other arts has only to do with some
 62 Text |           would allow that there are arts?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 63 Text |             Yes.~SOCRATES: As to the arts generally, they are for
 64 Text |             statuary, and many other arts, the work may proceed in
 65 Text |              in silence; and of such arts I suppose you would say
 66 Text |        SOCRATES: But there are other arts which work wholly through
 67 Text |         little, as, for example, the arts of arithmetic, of calculation,
 68 Text |            mean to call any of these arts rhetoric; although the precise
 69 Text |             rhetoric is one of those arts which works mainly by the
 70 Text |           words, and there are other arts which also use words, tell
 71 Text |            asks me about some of the arts which I was mentioning just
 72 Text |           arithmetic is one of those arts which take effect through
 73 Text |              That also is one of the arts which is concerned wholly
 74 Text |             not?) to be one of those arts which act always and fulfil
 75 Text |              persuasion, or do other arts have the same effect? I
 76 Text |      SOCRATES: Again, if we take the arts of which we were just now
 77 Text |              show that all the other arts of which we were just now
 78 Text |           persuasion, but that other arts do the same, as in the case
 79 Text |            her sway all the inferior arts. Let me offer you a striking
 80 Text |            rhetoric to all the other arts; the rhetorician need not
 81 Text |            to have learned the other arts, but the art of rhetoric
 82 Text |            of medicine and the other arts; I mean to say, does he
 83 Text |             body being two, have two arts corresponding to them: there
 84 Text |            that there are these four arts, two attending on the body
 85 Text |             same true of all similar arts, as, for example, the art
 86 Text |            and to the study of those arts which secure us from danger
 87 Text |          physician, and of the other arts of salvation, is ridiculous.
 88 Text |        drinks on the body. All other arts which have to do with the
 89 Text |          having no mind to use those arts and graces which you recommend,


Ion
    Part
 90 Intro|         flute-playing, and the other arts. The argument is at last
 91 Intro|             when Homer speaks of the arts, as for example, of chariot-driving,
 92 Text |         speak in many passages about arts? For example, about driving;
 93 Text |              this is true of all the arts;—that which we know with
 94 Text |             there are differences of arts?~ION: Yes.~SOCRATES: You
 95 Text |           meaning in saying that the arts were different,—if they
 96 Text |             knowledge, and different arts other subjects of knowledge?~
 97 Text |         Homer to their corresponding arts, I wish that you would tell
 98 Text |            the subjects of the other arts. As he does not know all


Laches
    Part
 99 Intro|             education in all but the arts of riding and wrestling
100 Text |            art of riding, are of all arts most befitting to a freeman;
101 Text |           practice of other military arts will be honourable and valuable
102 Text |       finding out and practising the arts which give them an advantage
103 Text |            no means firstrate in the arts of war. Further, Lysimachus,
104 Text |             them; while in all other arts the men of note have been
105 Text |              confidence in their own arts, and yet they are not courageous


Laws
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106 2    |              allowed either in these arts, or in music at all. And
107 2    |              And so in the imitative arts—if they succeed in making
108 3    |             be unacquainted with the arts and the various devices
109 3    |           For it is evident that the arts were unknown during ten
110 3    |          cities and governments, and arts and laws, and a great deal
111 3    |            say, with the loss of the arts, and there was great difficulty
112 3    |             time afterwards, all the arts which require iron and brass
113 3    |              the plastic and weaving arts do not require any use of
114 3    |              God has given these two arts to man in order to provide
115 3    |             and more ignorant of the arts generally, and in particular
116 3    |       warfare, and likewise of other arts, termed in cities legal
117 4    |              this may be said of the arts of the sailor, and the pilot,
118 5    |             and politics, and in the arts, as the study of arithmetic.
119 7    |        entrusted the practice of the arts to others, and whose husbandry,
120 8    |          from rightly practising the arts of war:—Granted; and now
121 8    |            be occupied in handicraft arts; for he who is to secure
122 8    |      pursuing two professions or two arts rightly, or of practising
123 8    |             any stranger profess two arts, let them chastise him with
124 10   |           create and their companion arts. And there are other arts
125 10   |            arts. And there are other arts which have a serious purpose,
126 11   |        furnished human life with the arts is dedicated to Hephaestus
127 11   |            works of all craftsmen by arts of defence, the votaries
128 12   |            of the particulars of the arts which we mentioned, cannot
129 12   |      astronomy, and the accompanying arts of demonstration, may become


Menexenus
    Part
130 Text |             and instructed us in the arts for the supply of our daily


Meno
    Part
131 Intro|          that poetry and the mimetic arts are concerned with an inferior
132 Text |      flute-playing, and of the other arts? Would a man who wanted
133 Text |          gymnastics and all sorts of arts—in these respects they were


Phaedrus
    Part
134 Intro|             limits, and probably the arts both of speaking and of
135 Intro|              from literature and the arts to law and politics, again
136 Text |         future and is the noblest of arts, with madness (manike),
137 Text |             heard of these wonderful arts, brachylogies and eikonologies
138 Text |              SOCRATES: All the great arts require discussion and high
139 Text |             was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and
140 Text |              or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters,


Philebus
    Part
141 Intro|       highest good, the sciences and arts and true opinions are enumerated
142 Intro|           mensuration, and weighing. Arts like carpentering, which
143 Intro|         distinction between the fine arts and the mechanical; and,
144 Intro|             order of the sciences or arts, which agrees generally
145 Intro|             that the position of the arts is more exactly defined.
146 Intro|       measure. Of the more empirical arts, music is given as an example;
147 Intro|           theoretical element of the arts may also become a purely
148 Intro|            probably classed with the arts and true opinions, because
149 Intro|       philosophical. Of the creative arts, there is one part purer
150 Intro|             measure. Of the creative arts, then, we may make two classes—
151 Intro|              other. Thus we have two arts of arithmetic, and two of
152 Intro|           greatest and usefullest of arts; and I should not like to
153 Intro|            that she is the truest of arts; my remark is not quantitative
154 Intro|              than any other? For the arts generally are only occupied
155 Intro|            wisdom. Secondly, ask the arts and sciences—they reply
156 Intro|         wisdom.~Fourth, sciences and arts and true opinions.~Fifth,
157 Text |           all the discoveries in the arts.~PROTARCHUS: Tell us what
158 Text |             productive or handicraft arts, is not one part more akin
159 Text |              accuracy than the other arts.~PROTARCHUS: How is that?~
160 Text |           Then now let us divide the arts of which we were speaking
161 Text |         speaking into two kinds,—the arts which, like music, are less
162 Text |          arithmetic, and the kindred arts of weighing and measuring.~
163 Text |               already shown that the arts have different provinces,
164 Text |             say in reply, that those arts into which arithmetic and
165 Text |        others; and that of these the arts or sciences which are animated
166 Text |         SOCRATES: That there are two arts of arithmetic, and two of
167 Text |               and also several other arts which in like manner have
168 Text |          what we term the most exact arts or sciences.~PROTARCHUS:
169 Text |             or best or usefullest of arts or sciences, but which had
170 Text |         because you observe that the arts in general and those engaged
171 Text |             pleasures, as there were arts and sciences necessary,
172 Text |       SOCRATES: The knowledge of the arts has been admitted to be
173 Text |             to the soul—sciences and arts and true opinions as we


Protagoras
    Part
174 Intro|             and the unskilled in the arts, do not distinguish between
175 Intro|         Prometheus had given men the arts, Zeus is represented as
176 Intro|              These are not, like the arts, to be imparted to a few
177 Intro|         skilled and unskilled in the arts, and not between skilled
178 Intro|             virtues are not like the arts, gifts or attainments of
179 Intro|             be noticed, in which the arts are said to be given by
180 Intro|            tedious and hypercritical arts of interpretation which
181 Intro|             condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology
182 Text |             way that you learned the arts of the grammarian, or musician,
183 Text |            was saying, adopted these arts as veils or disguises because
184 Text |           have just escaped from the arts, are taken and driven back
185 Text |  ship-wrights; and the like of other arts which they think capable
186 Text |              about professors of the arts. But when the question is
187 Text |      salvation, stole the mechanical arts of Hephaestus and Athene,
188 Text |             practise their favourite arts, and carried off Hephaestus’
189 Text |            he distribute them as the arts are distributed; that is
190 Text |            in the virtues, as in the arts. And further, make a law
191 Text |              would conceal the other arts, but imparting them—for
192 Text |          carry them further in their arts? And you would certainly


The Republic
    Book
193 1    |             without end? Or have the arts to look only after their
194 1    |          horse; neither do any other arts care for themselves, for
195 1    |            surely, Thrasymachus, the arts are the superiors and rulers
196 1    |        question: Are not the several arts different, by reason of
197 1    |              confuse this with other arts, any more than the art of
198 1    |        artists from their respective arts. But the truth is, that
199 1    |              art of pay. The various arts may be doing their own business
200 1    |        longer any doubt that neither arts nor governments provide
201 1    |              to take the case of the arts: you would admit that one
202 2    |             a small cost; with magic arts and incantations binding
203 2    |           and clothes and shoes; the arts of the painter and the embroiderer
204 2    |             man cannot practise many arts with success. ~Very true,
205 3    |                        BOOK III: THE ARTS IN EDUCATION~(SOCRATES,
206 3    |      building and the other creative arts; and is he who cannot conform
207 3    |         always being opened; and the arts of the doctor and the lawyer
208 3    |        descendants in valetudinarian arts, the omission arose, not
209 3    |      carpentering and the mechanical arts, does not equally stand
210 3    |           said. ~Neither are the two arts of music and gymnastics
211 3    |           say, has given mankind two arts answering to them (and only
212 4    |             the deterioration of the arts. ~What are they? ~Wealth,
213 4    |            this is true of the other arts and sciences? ~Yes. ~Now,
214 5    |              art of war one of those arts in which she can or cannot
215 5    |            to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature
216 5    |        better. ~And this is what the arts of music and gymnastics,
217 5    |             you never observe in the arts how the potters' boys look
218 5    |            professors of quite minor arts, are philosophers? ~Certainly
219 6    |            is not to be found in the arts. And many are thus attracted
220 6    |             gifted few who leave the arts, which they justly despise,
221 6    |              geometry and the sister arts. ~And when I speak of the
222 6    |              than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which
223 7    |         nature; since all the useful arts were reckoned mean by us? ~
224 7    |     gymnastics are excluded, and the arts are also excluded, what
225 7    |                A something which all arts and sciences and intelligences
226 7    |              calculation: do not all arts and sciences necessarily
227 7    |             study and pursuit of the arts which have been described. ~
228 7    |              its own nature; for the arts in general are concerned
229 9    |          mean employments and manual arts a reproach? Only because
230 10   |            he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist,
231 10   |              a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that
232 10   |             their head, know all the arts and all things human, virtue
233 10   |              medicine, or any of the arts to which his poems only
234 10   |             about medicine and other arts at second-hand; but we have
235 10   |            of his, applicable to the arts or to human life, such as
236 10   |            the colors of the several arts, himself understanding their
237 10   |          What? ~That there are three arts which are concerned with
238 10   |          like magic. ~True. ~And the arts of measuring and numbering
239 10   |            of a woman cunning in the arts; and far away among the


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
240 Text |            is clever in any of these arts should be wise also in general?
241 Text |        athletes and masters in other arts, and besides them of those
242 Text |         better to apply any of these arts or in regard to whom?~ALCIBIADES:
243 Text |               and is skilful in many arts, and does not possess the


The Sophist
    Part
244 Intro|         ignorance of himself, in his arts of deception, and in his
245 Intro|             may be a learning of the arts or of virtue. The seller
246 Intro|            virtue. The seller of the arts may be called an art-seller;
247 Intro|      controversial, the disputatious arts; and he will be found at
248 Intro|            she wants to know how the arts are related to one another,
249 Intro|              mere instruction in the arts) cures the ignorance of
250 Text |             of art.~STRANGER: And of arts there are two kinds?~THEAETETUS:
251 Text |          True.~STRANGER: And all the arts which were just now mentioned
252 Text |               Seeing, then, that all arts are either acquisitive or
253 Text |          expressions are used in the arts.~THEAETETUS: Of what are
254 Text |     inanimate substances—to this the arts of fulling and of furbishing
255 Text |            and is not kindred in all arts, with a view to the acquisition
256 Text |              to comprehend all these arts of purification, whether
257 Text |           the body are there not two arts which have to do with the
258 Text |           the teaching of handicraft arts, but what, thanks to us,
259 Text |              wrestling and the other arts?~STRANGER: Yes, my friend,
260 Text |            appearances, or about the arts which are concerned with
261 Text |             and hence there are many arts and kinds of knowledge.~


The Statesman
    Part
262 Intro|       distinguished from the kindred arts; and then, following this
263 Intro|           there not a measure of all arts and sciences, to which the
264 Intro|             making a division of the arts and sciences into theoretical
265 Intro|          carpentering and handicraft arts of the latter (compare Philebus).
266 Intro|       struggle for existence without arts or knowledge, and had no
267 Intro|    Hephaestus and Athene taught them arts, and other gods gave them
268 Intro|             kindred and co-operative arts. For the first process to
269 Intro|        weaving. Again, there are the arts which make the weaver’s
270 Intro|        distinct; because these other arts require to be first cleared
271 Intro|          co-operative or subordinate arts. To the causal class belong
272 Intro|              causal class belong the arts of washing and mending,
273 Intro|           the threads, and the other arts of working in wool; these
274 Intro|            and defect. There are two arts of measuring—one is concerned
275 Intro|            or any other; for all the arts guard against excess or
276 Intro|            endeavour to show, if the arts are to exist; and the proof
277 Intro|              to the existence of the arts. The standard or measure,
278 Intro|             now only applying to the arts, may be some day required
279 Intro|              in the one part all the arts which measure the relative
280 Intro|              causal and co-operative arts which exist in states; these
281 Intro|               any more than with the arts of making (3) vehicles,
282 Intro|               Then (6) there are the arts which furnish gold, silver,
283 Intro|           science; any more than the arts (7) which provide food and
284 Intro|             be the consequence?~‘The arts would utterly perish, and
285 Intro|           can become quite pure. The arts of the general, the judge,
286 Intro|      selecting the proper subsidiary arts which are necessary for
287 Intro|        Hephaestus a knowledge of the arts; other gods give him seeds
288 Intro|            the natural growth of the arts and of civilised society.
289 Intro|            this way removed; (2) the arts are attributed to a divine
290 Intro|           the general analogy of the arts is constantly employed by
291 Intro|             comparison of particular arts—weaving, the refining of
292 Intro|           Measure is the life of the arts, and may some day be discovered
293 Intro|              causal and co-operative arts, which may be compared with
294 Intro|              conception of two great arts of composition and division,
295 Intro|        conception of a mean, the two arts of measuring.~In the Theaetetus,
296 Intro|        Statesman. The same ingenious arts of giving verisimilitude
297 Text |            and certain other kindred arts, merely abstract knowledge,
298 Text |             knowledge than to manual arts and to practical life in
299 Text |            unmistakeably, one of the arts of knowledge?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
300 Text |             and the numerous kindred arts which exercise command;
301 Text |            STRANGER: There were many arts of shepherding, and one
302 Text |              them by Prometheus, the arts by Hephaestus and his fellow-worker,
303 Text |            not from the co-operative arts.~YOUNG SOCRATES: And which
304 Text |            And which are the kindred arts?~STRANGER: I see that I
305 Text |            are what I termed kindred arts.~YOUNG SOCRATES: I understand.~
306 Text |           and subtracted the various arts of making water-tight which
307 Text |           other crafts, and all such arts as furnish impediments to
308 Text |            we to regard all these as arts of weaving?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
309 Text |             And yet surely all these arts will maintain that they
310 Text |         Besides these, there are the arts which make tools and instruments
311 Text |              greatest and noblest of arts which are concerned with
312 Text |           for do not all those other arts require to be first cleared
313 Text |          that there are two kinds of arts entering into everything
314 Text |              you mean?~STRANGER: The arts which do not manufacture
315 Text |            without which the several arts could not fulfil their appointed
316 Text |      distinction.~STRANGER: Thus the arts which make spindles, combs,
317 Text |             Very true.~STRANGER: The arts of washing and mending,
318 Text |            and the other preparatory arts which belong to the causal
319 Text |          both these are parts of two arts at once.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
320 Text |              to one of the two great arts which are of universal application—
321 Text |      doctrine be the ruin of all the arts and their creations; would
322 Text |             disappear? For all these arts are on the watch against
323 Text |            the very existence of the arts must be held to depend on
324 Text |        maintaining; for if there are arts, there is a standard of
325 Text |       standard of measure, there are arts; but if either is wanting,
326 Text |              in the one part all the arts which measure number, length,
327 Text |           separated from the similar arts of shepherds, and, indeed,
328 Text |              causal and co-operative arts those which are immediately
329 Text |        STRANGER: You know that these arts cannot easily be divided
330 Text |         example of weaving—all those arts which furnish the tools
331 Text |          with still more reason, all arts which make any implement
332 Text |            of which and in which the arts already mentioned fabricate
333 Text |              offspring of many other arts, may I not rank sixth?~YOUNG
334 Text |           animals, and other similar arts which manufacture corks
335 Text |              husbandry and the other arts, some sitting in the market-place,
336 Text | consideration, that neither of these arts shall any longer be allowed
337 Text |              YOUNG SOCRATES: All the arts would utterly perish, and
338 Text |              there remain the nobler arts of the general and the judge,
339 Text |         learning music or handicraft arts in general?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
340 Text |             to decide which of these arts are and are not to be learned;—
341 Text |            science which governs the arts of speech and persuasion.~
342 Text |        STRANGER: And, therefore, the arts which we have described,
343 Text |            commanding the subsidiary arts to execute the works which


The Symposium
    Part
344 Intro|            he is the inventor of the arts; all the gods are his subjects;
345 Intro|              and strong, and full of arts and resources. Further,
346 Text |              in every branch but the arts of gymnastic and husbandry
347 Text |         accomplished in all the fine arts; for no one can give to
348 Text |           not walks in darkness. The arts of medicine and archery
349 Text |        together, and through him the arts of the prophet and the priest,
350 Text |              wisdom, such as that of arts and handicrafts, is mean
351 Text |         creative; and the masters of arts are all poets or makers.’ ‘


Theaetetus
    Part
352 Intro|            and shrewd; he learns the arts of flattery, and is perfect
353 Intro|            of this the wisdom of the arts or the seeming wisdom of
354 Intro|              ideas, of the so-called arts and sciences, of the one,
355 Text |            matter of each of the two arts?~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
356 Text |            nor yet the number of the arts or sciences, for we were
357 Text |    politicians, or the wisdom of the arts, are coarse and vulgar.


Timaeus
    Part
358 Intro|      dialectic, mathematics, and the arts, there is another field
359 Intro|              about the origin of the arts, that there had somewhere
360 Intro|             Alexander.’ The numerous arts of verisimilitude by which