The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to
  2 Text |      confident in the justice of my cause (Or, I am certain that I
  3 Text |             worse appear the better cause. The disseminators of this
  4 Text |          have been in youth—and the cause when heard went by default,
  5 Text |            likely to avail me in my cause! The task is not an easy
  6 Text |             worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid
  7 Text |          tell us, then, what is the cause of them, for we should be
  8 Text |             worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to
  9 Text |          you and to God I commit my cause, to be determined by you
 10 Text |        other cities, that a capital cause should not be decided in


Charmides
    Part
 11 PreS |           one of them expresses the cause or effect or condition or


Cratylus
    Part
 12 Intro|    preserves all things, and is the cause of all things, quasi diaion
 13 Intro|         confused with the secondary cause; and God is assumed to have
 14 Intro|      individuality in the universal cause or nature. In like manner
 15 Intro|            too much the nature of a cause, and too little of an effect,—
 16 Intro|            be the sole or principal cause of changes in language,
 17 Intro|           suppose the conception of cause and effect or of the finite
 18 Text |           principle (othoun) is the cause and ruling power of all
 19 Text |             am speaking is also the cause of the world: now a cause
 20 Text |           cause of the world: now a cause is that because of which
 21 Text |      partaking of the nature of the cause, and I begin, after hearing
 22 Text |          Let me ask you what is the cause why anything has a name;
 23 Text |          which imposes the name the cause?~HERMOGENES: Certainly.~


Euthyphro
    Part
 24 Text |          and that you will win your cause; and I think that I shall
 25 Text |            is of a kind to be loved cause it is loved, and the other (


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 26 Text |            still speaks to you. The cause of my silence has been that
 27 Text |           justice—this was the sole cause of the battles, and of their


Gorgias
    Part
 28 Intro|             a youth maintaining the cause of injustice against the
 29 Intro|             a martyr dies in a good cause, when a soldier falls in
 30 Intro|           martyr or sufferer in the cause of right or truth is often
 31 Intro|        otherwise than he did in the cause of truth or of humanity.
 32 Text |            of which I have been the cause I will also repair; for
 33 Text |         burns in excess or so as to cause pain, the thing burned will
 34 Text |             or deep or such as will cause pain, the cut will be of


Laws
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 35 3    |          endeavour to ascertain the cause of these changes; for that
 36 3    |             poor; nor was poverty a cause of difference among them;
 37 3    |          that not cowardice was the cause of the ruin of the Dorian
 38 4    |          own laws may have been the cause of the factions which prevailed
 39 5    |        defect of them is commonly a cause of slavery. And, therefore,
 40 5    |          him is most zealous in his cause; and he who is most able
 41 5    |      legislator theirs has been the cause, or some impediment of chance
 42 6    |         feat.~Cleinias. What is the cause, Stranger, of this extreme
 43 6    |             order in a state is the cause of every good, but that
 44 7    |         away out of their Place and cause a universal ruin—one part
 45 8    |             are they?~Athenian. One cause is the love of wealth, which
 46 8    |          Cleinias. Then that is one cause, Stranger; but you spoke
 47 8    |           now proceed to the second cause.~Cleinias. Proceed.~Athenian.
 48 8    |          say that governments are a cause—democracy, oligarchy, tyranny,
 49 8    |           their multiplication, may cause a weight of enmity, and
 50 8    |             injured party bring the cause before the wardens of the
 51 9    |        questions and go through the cause, and again set their seals
 52 9    |           that ignorance is a third cause of crimes. Ignorance, however,
 53 9    |           judges elected to try the cause, on the appeal of the criminal
 54 9    |           likes shall prosecute the cause according to the same rules.
 55 9    |          without intention to kill, cause the death of another by
 56 9    |         various kinds. The greatest cause of them is lust, which gets
 57 9    |      Hellenes and barbarians is the cause; they deem that to be the
 58 9    |             avarice is the chiefest cause and source of the worst
 59 9    |        voluntary homicide. A second cause is ambition: this creates
 60 9    |           of the state. And a third cause is cowardly and unjust fear,
 61 9    |             prosecution at law. The cause shall have the same judges
 62 9    |             magistrates who try the cause shall be provided by him,
 63 9    |           of burden or other animal cause the death of any one, except
 64 9    |      kinsmen appoint, shall try the cause, and let the beast when
 65 9    |           as the court deciding the cause shall assess, and the same
 66 9    |       curable, and at the same time cause great and notable disgrace
 67 9    |           when they have judged the cause, they shall entrust the
 68 9    |             be allowed to judge the cause, not even if he be of the
 69 9    |           These are the persons who cause the word to be spoken which
 70 10   |           who are and have been the cause of this argument; I speak
 71 10   |             that which is the first cause of the generation and destruction
 72 10   |         arising out of any external cause; the change must first take
 73 10   |          admit that the soul is the cause of good and evil, base and
 74 10   |            we suppose her to be the cause of all things?~Cleinias.
 75 11   |            they shall determine the cause within three days.~Any one
 76 11   |             made within a year. The cause shall be determined by such
 77 11   |    determined. And he who loses the cause shall have censure and blame
 78 11   |            men parents are always a cause of terror. Wherefore let
 79 11   |         have no more to do with the cause. And he who is summoned
 80 11   |          not afterwards vote in the cause. A free woman may give her
 81 11   |          either of the parties in a cause may bring an accusation
 82 11   |           the final decision of the cause. The magistrates shall preserve
 83 11   |             man to win a particular cause, whether just or unjust;
 84 11   |             to institute or plead a cause; and if he is supposed to
 85 12   |             indict him, and let the cause be tried in the following


Lysis
    Part
 86 Intro|          who say that likeness is a cause of aversion, and unlikeness
 87 Intro|             and what can that final cause or end of friendship be,
 88 Text |              But not if evil is the cause of friendship: for in that
 89 Text |       effect cannot remain when the cause is destroyed.~True.~And
 90 Text |            there must be some other cause of friendship?~I suppose
 91 Text |             now, that desire is the cause of friendship; for that


Menexenus
    Part
 92 Text |            evil, having made common cause with the barbarians, depriving


Meno
    Part
 93 Intro|         replies that he is only the cause of perplexity in others,
 94 Intro|             bound by the tie of the cause. This is the sort of instinct
 95 Intro|             bound by the tie of the cause), and also because the conception
 96 Intro|            the idea of good and the cause of all the rest. They seem,
 97 Intro|          works according to a final cause or principle of goodness
 98 Intro|             of all, who is also the cause, is retained. The one and
 99 Intro|           denial of the relation of cause and effect. He would deprive
100 Text |            is torpid as well as the cause of torpidity in others,
101 Text |          fastened by the tie of the cause; and this fastening of them,


Parmenides
    Part
102 Intro|            s denial of our ideas of cause and effect. Men do not at
103 Intro|            to distinguish between a cause and an end? How could they
104 Intro|      himself by analyzing the word ‘cause’ into uniform sequence.
105 Intro|        assigning to our notions of ‘cause and effect,’ ‘substance
106 Intro|           senses in which the word ‘cause’ or ‘substance’ may be employed.~
107 Intro|             We know that the words ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ are very far
108 Intro|             like ourselves—is not a cause like the material causes
109 Intro|             nor even an intelligent cause like a human agent—nor an
110 Intro|             but not a human mind; a cause, but not a material cause,
111 Intro|           cause, but not a material cause, nor yet a maker or artificer.


Phaedo
    Part
112 Intro|             is not an effect, but a cause; a harmony follows, but
113 Intro|        Anaxagoras, that mind is the cause of all things. And he said
114 Intro|             himself: If mind is the cause of all things, surely mind
115 Intro|             in his use of mind as a cause, and that he soon introduced
116 Intro|            a great confusion of the cause and condition in all this.
117 Intro|          and in enquiring after the cause, we can only hope to attain
118 Intro|       admission:—that beauty is the cause of the beautiful, greatness
119 Intro|            beautiful, greatness the cause of the great, smallness
120 Intro|            to the object, or as the cause to the effect, or as the
121 Intro|         soul is to be regarded as a cause or as an effect; the same
122 Intro|         answer,’ that beauty is the cause of the beautiful; and that
123 Text |        which she was to herself the cause, received and gently comforted
124 Text |           both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the
125 Text |            replied, that I knew the cause of any of them, by heaven
126 Text |       meeting of them should be the cause of their becoming two: neither
127 Text |           two; for then a different cause would produce the same effect,—
128 Text | juxtaposition of one to one was the cause of two, in this the separation
129 Text |         from the other would be the cause. Nor am I any longer satisfied
130 Text |           mind was the disposer and cause of all, and I was delighted
131 Text |             desired to find out the cause of the generation or destruction
132 Text |        would proceed to explain the cause and the necessity of this
133 Text |          not want any other sort of cause. And I thought that I would
134 Text |       explained to me in detail the cause of each and the cause of
135 Text |           the cause of each and the cause of all, he would go on to
136 Text |          generally that mind is the cause of the actions of Socrates,
137 Text |      forgetting to mention the true cause, which is, that the Athenians
138 Text |         they cannot distinguish the cause from the condition, which
139 Text |          mode of enquiring into the cause.~I should very much like
140 Text |             whether relating to the cause or to anything else; and
141 Text |         show you the nature of that cause which has occupied my thoughts.
142 Text |          show you the nature of the cause, and to prove the immortality
143 Text |         agree in this notion of the cause?~Yes, he said, I agree.~
144 Text |             division of one, is the cause of two? And you would loudly
145 Text |           far as you know, the only cause of two is the participation
146 Text |          saying that oddness is the cause of odd numbers, you will
147 Text |           say that the monad is the cause of them: and so of things
148 Text |             is due to the following cause:—There is a chasm which


Phaedrus
    Part
149 Intro|             worse appear the better cause;’ and do not ‘both parties
150 Intro|         that He is all this and the cause of all that, in order that
151 Text |         dislikes, but even when the cause is great, slowly laying
152 Text |      believe that you have been the cause of another.~PHAEDRUS: That


Philebus
    Part
153 Intro|           of the two; fourthly, the cause of the union. Pleasure is
154 Intro|       principles or elements is the cause of the union of the finite
155 Intro|             Zeus. This is the first cause of which ‘our ancestors
156 Intro|    abstractions, such as end, good, cause, they appear almost to meet
157 Intro|         distinction between a first cause and a final cause. And we
158 Intro|             first cause and a final cause. And we should commonly
159 Intro|           commonly identify a first cause with God, and the final
160 Intro|             with God, and the final cause with the world, which is
161 Intro|            the first with the final cause. The cause of the union
162 Intro|           with the final cause. The cause of the union of the finite
163 Intro|           akin to the nature of the cause, while pleasure is found
164 Intro|           finite and to the mind or cause, which were two of the elements
165 Intro|             an intelligent mind and cause. Of the Heracliteans, whom
166 Intro|           all circumstances, to the cause of pleasure.~Socrates suggests
167 Intro|             of the two, and (4) the cause of the union. More may be
168 Intro|          can be generated without a cause, and therefore there must
169 Intro|          fourth class, which is the cause of generation; for the cause
170 Intro|        cause of generation; for the cause or agent is not the same
171 Intro|           union of the two, and the cause, are found to exist in us.
172 Intro|              must not the fourth or cause which is the noblest of
173 Intro|        exist in the world? And this cause is wisdom or mind, the royal
174 Intro|             class which we term the cause, and pleasure to the infinite
175 Intro|            there is want which is a cause of pain, but in his mind
176 Intro|              and is the symbol of a cause for which they are ready
177 Intro|             For an act which is the cause of happiness to one person
178 Intro|            to one person may be the cause of unhappiness to another;
179 Intro|         pride or honour which would cause a quarrel, an estrangement,
180 Intro|             in him the power of the cause,’ a saying in which theology
181 Intro|            in which the question of cause and effect and their mutual
182 Text |       pleasure and I mind to be the cause of the mixed life; and in
183 Text |         might be imagined to be the cause of the good. And I might
184 Text |          For in going to war in the cause of mind, who is aspiring
185 Text |         that be?~SOCRATES: Find the cause of the third or compound,
186 Text |            to have a fifth class or cause of resolution as well as
187 Text |             resolution as well as a cause of composition?~SOCRATES:
188 Text |           come into being through a cause?~PROTARCHUS: Yes, certainly;
189 Text |            be anything which has no cause?~SOCRATES: And is not the
190 Text |           the agent the same as the cause in all except name; the
191 Text |             name; the agent and the cause may be rightly called one?~
192 Text |              SOCRATES: The agent or cause always naturally leads,
193 Text |       Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then the cause and what is subordinate
194 Text |        SOCRATES: And the creator or cause of them has been satisfactorily
195 Text |            wrong in speaking of the cause of mixture and generation
196 Text |     composition of the two, and the cause, the fourth, which enters
197 Text |              as well as a presiding cause of no mean power, which
198 Text |             in him the power of the cause? And other gods have other
199 Text |            four which we called the cause of all; and I think that
200 Text |           that mind was akin to the cause and of this family; and (
201 Text |           motions going up and down cause pleasures and pains?~PROTARCHUS:
202 Text |          and which is the principal cause why such a state is universally
203 Text |            difficulty in seeing the cause which renders any mixture
204 Text |            may regard as the single cause of the mixture, and the


Protagoras
    Part
205 Text |             which the ignorance may cause death and exile to those
206 Text |         good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others. Moreover
207 Text |             moment, or because they cause disease and poverty and
208 Text |        causing diseases do they not cause pain? and in causing poverty
209 Text |         causing poverty do they not cause pain;—they would agree to
210 Text |           that ignorance is not the cause, and that the art of which


The Republic
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211 1    |          evils their old age is the cause. But to me, Socrates, these
212 1    |             For if old age were the cause, I too, being old, and every
213 1    |           be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but
214 2    |           as far as he can be. ~The cause of all this, Socrates, was
215 2    |             which does no evil be a cause of evil? ~Impossible. ~And
216 2    |             Yes. ~And therefore the cause of well-being? ~Yes. ~It
217 2    |            that the good is not the cause of all things, but of the
218 2    |          many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and
219 3    |          stern resolve, or when his cause is failing, and he is going
220 4    |    miserable, and that they are the cause of their own unhappiness;
221 4    |           that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence
222 4    |              Yes. ~And just actions cause justice, and unjust actions
223 4    |         justice, and unjust actions cause injustice? ~That is certain. ~
224 5    |        fault in States which is the cause of their present maladministration,
225 6    |              if I am to plead their cause, I must have recourse to
226 6    |             you will deem to be the cause of science, and of truth
227 7    |            and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and
228 8    |           when there is no external cause. ~Yes, surely. ~And then
229 10   |            forgotten. ~Then, as the cause is decided, I demand on
230 10   |           were any who had been the cause of many deaths, or had betrayed


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
231 Text |           the numerous things which cause more harm than good: but
232 Text |           of which ignorance is the cause, since, as would appear,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
233 Text |             you urge me to aid your cause so far as I can in word
234 Text |          had, I consent to aid your cause; but if not, I shall think
235 Text |           death by Dionysios as the cause of all that had occurred.
236 Text |          did not now come, I should cause a complete rupture in their
237 Text |            Heracleides had been the cause of all the trouble. Hearing
238 Text |           had reached. This was the cause of his downfall, which has


The Sophist
    Part
239 Intro|        continuous and the discrete, cause and effect, are perpetually
240 Intro|             Book of the Republic, a cause as well as an effect, the
241 Intro|              whereas ‘individual,’ ‘cause,’ ‘motive,’ have acquired
242 Intro|         such as ‘Being,’ ‘matter,’ ‘cause,’ and the like, became relative
243 Intro|           our ideas of reciprocity, cause and effect, and similar
244 Intro|      opposition, or development, or cause and effect, in the different
245 Intro|              while others, such as ‘cause’ and ‘effect,’ are but slightly
246 Intro|          mind of an inventor is the cause of the work which is produced
247 Intro|            conceits—to be confusing cause and effect—to be losing
248 Text |        moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect,
249 Text |       spontaneous and unintelligent cause. Or shall we say that they


The Statesman
    Part
250 Intro|             the Timaeus; or between cause and condition in the Phaedo;
251 Intro|             society, and may easily cause more evils than it cures.
252 Text |             to be of two kinds, may cause that which is now sought
253 Text |         which we affirmed to be the cause of all these wonders. It
254 Text |           SOCRATES: How is that the cause?~STRANGER: Of all changes
255 Text |             the other the principal cause.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What do
256 Text |            sailing arrives; or they cause mishaps at sea and cast


The Symposium
    Part
257 Intro|           and best himself, and the cause of what is fairest and best
258 Intro|     everlasting nature which is the cause of all, and will be near
259 Intro|         converted into an efficient cause of creation. The traces
260 Intro|          Phaedrus, who has been the cause of more philosophical discussions
261 Intro|            making Aristophanes ‘the cause of wit in others,’ and also
262 Intro|           idea, which to him is the cause of all things (Rep.), and
263 Text |            much, or from some other cause he had the hiccough, and
264 Text |            best in himself, and the cause of what is fairest and best
265 Text |           he is all this,’ and ‘the cause of all that,’ making him
266 Text |           this too his birth is the cause; for his father is wealthy
267 Text |          saying to me, ‘What is the cause, Socrates, of love, and
268 Text |           teacher; tell me then the cause of this and of the other
269 Text |              Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils)—


Theaetetus
    Part
270 Intro|           their origin to a similar cause; the bodily frame is preserved
271 Intro|           his master, who holds the cause in his hands; the path never
272 Intro|             part of his life as the cause or effect of any other act
273 Intro|            like an effect without a cause, and therefore we suppose
274 Text |             that I must take up his cause myself, and see justice
275 Text |          who is seated, and has the cause in his hands; the trial


Timaeus
    Part
276 Intro|          see that all things have a cause and are tending towards
277 Intro|           the Phaedrus.~To the same cause we may attribute the want
278 Intro|            created is the work of a cause, and that is fair which
279 Intro|           and if created, made by a cause, and the cause is the ineffable
280 Intro|            made by a cause, and the cause is the ineffable father
281 Intro|           from its like is the real cause of heaviness or of lightness.
282 Intro|          replenishments of the body cause pleasure, and sudden disturbances,
283 Intro|            all these affections the cause is termed acid. When, on
284 Intro|           or assigned to their true cause by the professors of medicine.
285 Intro|             the nameless or unknown cause; or of justice, symbolizing
286 Intro|     Unexpected events, of which the cause was unknown to them, they
287 Intro|          either case the propelling cause outwards—the inhaled air,
288 Intro|            vacuum is the propelling cause inwards.~Thus we see that
289 Intro|             ear is in any sense the cause of sight and hearing he
290 Text |        necessity be created by some cause, for without a cause nothing
291 Text |           some cause, for without a cause nothing can be created.
292 Text |           necessity be created by a cause. But the father and maker
293 Text |            them waste away—for this cause and on these grounds he
294 Text |             which generation is the cause. These are the forms of
295 Text |           influence of the variable cause as well. Wherefore, we must
296 Text |   uniformity. Now inequality is the cause of the nature which is wanting
297 Text |             whole affection and the cause of the affection are both
298 Text |             considered—that is, the cause of pleasure and pain in
299 Text |            motions to the whole and cause pleasure and pain—pain when
300 Text |           while they are in a whirl cause them to dash against and
301 Text |            all these affections the cause is termed acid. And there
302 Text |            arising from an opposite cause, when the mass of entering
303 Text |         mind which is the principal cause with an eye to the future.
304 Text |             defect; and this is the cause of the very greatest and
305 Text |           when excess of air is the cause, then the fever is quotidian;
306 Text |             awkwardness, and is the cause of infinite evil to its
307 Text |            the opposite of the real cause. And once more, when a body