The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        gives you the appearance of happiness, and I give you the reality.


Charmides
    Part
  2 Intro|     knowledge does not tend to our happiness and good: the only kind
  3 Intro|          of knowledge which brings happiness is the knowledge of good
  4 Intro|         this knowledge conduces to happiness in the same definite way
  5 Text |           hardly find the crown of happiness in anything else.~But of
  6 Text |           that you mean to confine happiness to particular individuals


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|          for it,—e.g. felicity and happiness. The cultivated mind desires


Critias
    Part
  8 Text |         had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious


Euthydemus
    Part
  9 Intro|          after the art of life and happiness. At last they fix upon the
 10 Intro|         the Socratic doctrine that happiness is gained by knowledge.
 11 Text |         you: Do not all men desire happiness? And yet, perhaps, this
 12 Text |          there who does not desire happiness?~There is no one, said Cleinias,
 13 Text |          since we all of us desire happiness, how can we be happy?—that
 14 Text |          that sufficient to confer happiness?~Yes, in my opinion.~And
 15 Text |         Seeing that all men desire happiness, and happiness, as has been
 16 Text |          men desire happiness, and happiness, as has been shown, is gained
 17 Text |       whether that gave and caused happiness, and then we got into a
 18 Text |           of the art or science of happiness.~CRITO: Indeed, Socrates,
 19 Text |           the rest of our lives in happiness.~CRITO: And did Euthydemus


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 20 Text |           Certainly.~SOCRATES: And happiness is a good?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~
 21 Text |          will be security for your happiness.~ALCIBIADES: I accept the


Gorgias
    Part
 22 Intro|     self-indulgence are virtue and happiness; all the rest is mere talk.’~
 23 Intro|          as I admit, is my idea of happiness.’ And to be itching and
 24 Intro|         not deny that there may be happiness even in that.’ And to indulge
 25 Intro|          goodness and therefore of happiness, and the intemperate whom
 26 Intro| self-control is the true secret of happiness, then the paradox is true
 27 Intro|            of the consciousness of happiness, but of the idea of happiness.
 28 Intro|      happiness, but of the idea of happiness. When a martyr dies in a
 29 Intro|         making no reference to the happiness of others, as affected by
 30 Intro|          affected by him.’ But the happiness of others or of mankind,
 31 Intro|           as Plato’s conception of happiness. For the greatest happiness
 32 Intro|        happiness. For the greatest happiness of the greatest number may
 33 Intro|        endeavours to show that his happiness would be assured here in
 34 Intro|    afterthought, when the superior happiness of the just has been established
 35 Intro|        subjective consciousness of happiness, that would have been found
 36 Intro|     Gorgias, but the conception of happiness is different in the two
 37 Intro|          regard to consequences is happiness. From this elevation or
 38 Text |          POLUS: What! and does all happiness consist in this?~SOCRATES:
 39 Text |         that was not his notion of happiness; but not long afterwards
 40 Text |             to know or not to know happiness and misery—that is the chief
 41 Text |         health.~SOCRATES: Yes; for happiness surely does not consist
 42 Text |        first place in the scale of happiness who has never had vice in
 43 Text |         with means, are virtue and happiness—all the rest is a mere bauble,
 44 Text |      scratching, in your notion of happiness?~CALLICLES: What a strange
 45 Text |         have and not have good and happiness, and their opposites, evil
 46 Text |         and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil;


Laws
    Book
 47 1    |             whether he aims at the happiness of the individual or state,
 48 2    |          the final consummation of happiness is to have acquired all
 49 4    |           which are needed for the happiness of the state, yet the true
 50 4    |         which is most conducive to happiness; for there neither is nor
 51 6    |           her own preservation and happiness. I would have the seven–
 52 6    |            greatly conduces to the happiness of the state. But at present,
 53 7    |            of life only blest with happiness, when he might have made
 54 9    |         would live in security and happiness. Wherefore it is a foul
 55 10   |            things rightly to their happiness; but when she is the companion
 56 10   |          form any true idea of the happiness or unhappiness of life or


Lysis
    Part
 57 Intro|            causes which impair the happiness of friends.~We may expect
 58 Text |         very ready to promote your happiness.~Certainly, he replied.~
 59 Text |            not interfere with your happiness; her wool, or the piece


Menexenus
    Part
 60 Text |     excelled by you is a source of happiness to us. And we shall most
 61 Text |            well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible,


Meno
    Part
 62 Text |        guidance of wisdom, ends in happiness; but when she is under the


Phaedo
    Part
 63 Intro|         nature of that pleasure or happiness which never wearies by monotony?


Phaedrus
    Part
 64 Intro|        their lives in the greatest happiness which is attainable by man—
 65 Intro|       which united them. And their happiness would depend upon their
 66 Text |           reason. After this their happiness depends upon their self-control;
 67 Text |            pass their life here in happiness and harmony—masters of themselves
 68 Text |         the utmost extent of human happiness.~PHAEDRUS: Far nobler, certainly.~


Philebus
    Part
 69 Intro|    conceptions of mental pleasure, happiness, and the like.~2. Pleasure
 70 Intro|          can separate justice from happiness in the Republic.~IV. An
 71 Intro|        simplicity of the ‘greatest happiness’ principle has been acceptable
 72 Intro|         which does not tend to the happiness of mankind; we acknowledge
 73 Intro|    included. The desire to promote happiness is no mean preference of
 74 Intro|    determine their effect upon the happiness of mankind.~There is a theory
 75 Intro|            ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with Kant’s
 76 Intro|            tendency to promote the happiness of mankind, or, in other
 77 Intro|         Neither is the pleasure or happiness, which we seek, our own
 78 Intro|          for every other.’~Good or happiness or pleasure is thus regarded
 79 Intro|    dependent on the greater end of happiness, and would not be pursued,
 80 Intro|        with religion, the greatest happiness principle is in the highest
 81 Intro|           that God should will the happiness of all his creatures? and
 82 Intro|           and in working out their happiness we may be said to be ‘working
 83 Intro|            phrase of the ‘greatest happiness principle,’ it seems as
 84 Intro|           now to read ‘the noblest happiness principle,’ ‘the happiness
 85 Intro|         happiness principle,’ ‘the happiness of others principle’—the
 86 Intro|            Transfer the thought of happiness to another life, dropping
 87 Intro|        large a part of our idea of happiness in this, and the meaning
 88 Intro|    opposite. For allowing that the happiness of others is reflected on
 89 Intro|        trifling exception, and the happiness of another is very far from
 90 Intro|         more general notion of the happiness of mankind at large. But
 91 Intro|             Are we not desirous of happiness, at any rate for ourselves
 92 Intro|        benefits which the greatest happiness principle has conferred
 93 Intro|            conceptions of harmony, happiness, right, freedom, benevolence,
 94 Intro|           Act so as to promote the happiness of mankind,’ or ‘Act so
 95 Intro|           far as they tend towards happiness, we naturally ask what is
 96 Intro|    naturally ask what is meant by ‘happiness.’ For the term in the common
 97 Intro|           man in the first rank of happiness. But yet, from various circumstances,
 98 Intro|             the measure of a man’s happiness may be out of all proportion
 99 Intro|          We have already seen that happiness includes the happiness of
100 Intro|        that happiness includes the happiness of others as well as our
101 Intro|   unconscious as well as conscious happiness under the same word. There
102 Intro|  subjective feeling of pleasure or happiness and the objective reality
103 Intro|       states of human life we call happiness? which includes the lower
104 Intro|       lower and the higher kind of happiness, and is the aim of the noblest,
105 Intro|          is that which constitutes happiness, over and above the several
106 Intro|        right. Or we may reply that happiness is the whole of which the
107 Intro|        unable to distinguish them, happiness will be the mere aggregate
108 Intro|      action there is an element of happiness, we cannot help seeing that
109 Intro|          their tendency to promote happiness. For the explanation of
110 Intro|          not promoted the greatest happiness of the greatest number,
111 Intro|           cognizance. The greatest happiness principle strengthens our
112 Intro|          in every way possible the happiness of others may be a counsel
113 Intro|     tendency of actions to promote happiness. Whence comes the necessity
114 Intro|          which equally tend to the happiness of mankind imposed upon
115 Intro|        earnest in maintaining that happiness includes the happiness of
116 Intro|        that happiness includes the happiness of others as well as of
117 Intro|          state of the world my own happiness and that of all other men
118 Intro|          others. Upon the greatest happiness principle it is admitted
119 Intro| consistency I should pursue my own happiness as impartially as that of
120 Intro|  particular case they are opposed? Happiness is said to be the ground
121 Intro|        clearly conduces to his own happiness if it is at variance with
122 Intro|         the tendency of actions to happiness a principle upon which we
123 Intro|           their tendencies towards happiness? For an act which is the
124 Intro|          act which is the cause of happiness to one person may be the
125 Intro|            person may increase the happiness of mankind may have the
126 Intro|          actions which tend to the happiness of mankind which may not
127 Intro|          all right actions tend to happiness, but that they tend to happiness
128 Intro|   happiness, but that they tend to happiness in the same degree in which
129 Intro|            for the sake of eternal happiness,’ but doing the will of
130 Intro|            truth. To promote their happiness is not his first object,
131 Intro|        that of others there may be happiness in the distance, but if
132 Intro|     distance, but if there were no happiness he would equally act as
133 Intro|            the acknowledgment that happiness includes the happiness of
134 Intro|        that happiness includes the happiness of others, as well as of
135 Intro|          conscious and unconscious happiness, or between happiness the
136 Intro|  unconscious happiness, or between happiness the energy and happiness
137 Intro|           happiness the energy and happiness the result of the energy,
138 Intro|         cheerfully from a greatest happiness principle. But we find that
139 Intro|        conviction of the nature of happiness. The meaning of the word
140 Intro|            not reject the greatest happiness principle, but it rejects
141 Intro|         approach him. The greatest happiness of the greatest number was
142 Intro|       differed in kind, or that by happiness he meant anything but pleasure.
143 Intro|         such an action promote the happiness of myself, my family, my
144 Intro|         contribute to the greatest happiness of others?’ is another form
145 Intro|          to have weight except the happiness of a people. All parties
146 Intro|          the ideal of the greatest happiness of mankind, especially if
147 Intro|            will not conduce to the happiness of mankind, though true
148 Intro|          feeling into the greatest happiness principle takes away from
149 Intro|            that he may promote the happiness of mankind, but for the
150 Intro|          motives than the greatest happiness of the greatest number,
151 Intro|      understand that God wills the happiness, not of some of his creatures
152 Intro|   existence.~‘What is the place of happiness or utility in a system of
153 Intro|             Admitting the greatest happiness principle to be true and
154 Intro|            the other. The greatest happiness principle, which includes
155 Intro|        what proofs? Religion, like happiness, is a word which has great
156 Intro|          life.~Fifthly, beauty and happiness,—the inward enjoyment of
157 Intro|       Syllogism, the conception of happiness as the foundation of morals,


Protagoras
    Part
158 Intro|          their tendency to produce happiness,—though such a principle
159 Text |       grant that also. Now suppose happiness to consist in doing or choosing


The Republic
    Book
160 1    |      interest, and minister to his happiness, which is very far from
161 1    |         miserable? ~So be it. ~But happiness, and not misery, is profitable? ~
162 2    |        many good men, and good and happiness to the wicked. And mendicant
163 2    |          over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote
164 3    |            for himself and his own happiness, and therefore is least
165 3    |         the gods in conceit of her happiness, or when she is in affliction,
166 4    |       world goes, is thought to be happiness; and many other accusations
167 4    |           not the disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the
168 4    |            class, but the greatest happiness of the whole; we thought
169 4    |            the guardians a sort of happiness which will make them anything
170 4    |          power of giving order and happiness to the State. We mean our
171 4    |       would look to their greatest happiness individually, or whether
172 4    |          whether this principle of happiness does not rather reside in
173 4    |          receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to
174 5    |        with a view to the greatest happiness, not of any particular class,
175 5    |           some youthful conceit of happiness which gets up into his head
176 5    |          we might judge of our own happiness and unhappiness according
177 5    |           other State can there be happiness private or public is indeed
178 6    |           this life with a similar happiness in another. ~How truly in
179 7    |          happy above the rest; the happiness was to be in the whole State,
180 7    |     soonest and most easily attain happiness, and the nation which has
181 8    |            to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of him who
182 8    |            now let us consider the happiness of the man, and also of
183 9    |           and how does he live, in happiness or in misery? ~Yes, he said,
184 9    |          is to State in virtue and happiness, so is man in relation to
185 9    |      decision about their relative happiness and misery. And here we
186 9    |            shall tell us about the happiness and misery of the tyrant
187 9    |           is first in the scale of happiness, and who second, and in
188 9    |      criterion of virtue and vice, happiness and misery. ~Need we hire
189 10   |            are ever to increase in happiness and virtue. ~I cannot deny
190 10   |             For this is the way of happiness. ~And according to the report


The Seventh Letter
    Part
191 Text |           there called the life of happiness, stuffed full as it was
192 Text |           be a life of unspeakable happiness both for himself and for
193 Text |         introduce the true life of happiness throughout the whole territory.~
194 Text |        belief that there can be no happiness either for the community
195 Text |            be full of security and happiness, and there will be an escape


The Statesman
    Part
196 Intro|          shall I tell you that the happiness of these children of Cronos
197 Intro|         respecting the comparative happiness of men in this and in a
198 Text |   particular fails to secure their happiness.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Your picture,


The Symposium
    Part
199 Intro|           is the source of all our happiness and friendship with the
200 Intro|       possession of the good to be happiness, and Love to be the desire
201 Intro|           Love to be the desire of happiness, although the meaning of
202 Text |          of virtue in life, and of happiness after death.~This, or something
203 Text |           is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us
204 Text |            great impediment to the happiness of the race. I will try
205 Text |          who possesses the good?’ ‘Happiness,’ I replied; ‘there is less
206 Text |           to ask why a man desires happiness; the answer is already final.’ ‘
207 Text |        that all desire of good and happiness is only the great and subtle


Theaetetus
    Part
208 Intro|       wealthy kings to the view of happiness and misery in themselves,
209 Intro|      virtue is reduced to feeling, happiness or good to pleasure. The
210 Intro|        attained to a lower kind of happiness or equanimity. They have
211 Text |         the commonplaces about the happiness of a king or of a rich man
212 Text |           government, and of human happiness and misery in general—what


Timaeus
    Part
213 Intro|       possible to man, and also to happiness, while he is training up