The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             all men of all ages the necessity of virtue and improvement;
  2 Intro|        death in order to escape the necessity of giving an account of
  3 Text |       lamented and feared this: but necessity was laid upon me,—the word


Charmides
    Part
  4 Text |            self-knowledge: but what necessity is there that, having this,


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|        matter and mind, freedom and necessity, or the other problems of
  6 Intro|         masters, in which driven by necessity or impelled by some instinct,
  7 Intro|           in ‘um;’ nor (b) from any necessity of being understood,—much
  8 Intro|     pronunciation of a word (c) the necessity of finding new expressions
  9 Intro|          use of it: such as (1) the necessity of clearness and connexion; (
 10 Intro|         poems which had once been a necessity of the human mind became
 11 Text |            the same spot,—desire or necessity?~HERMOGENES: Desire, Socrates,
 12 Text |         certainly infer, and not by necessity?~HERMOGENES: That is clear.~
 13 Text |            I have explained anagke (necessity), which ought to come next,


Euthydemus
    Part
 14 Intro|           at once relieved from the necessity of discussing one of his


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 15 Text |             I am telling you of the necessity of education applies to


Gorgias
    Part
 16 Intro|          Gorgias is made to see the necessity of a further limitation,
 17 Intro|          and if possible escape the necessity of punishment, but if he
 18 Intro|            the Gorgias suggests the necessity. The theory of the many
 19 Intro|          have involved Plato in the necessity of supposing that the soul
 20 Text |           answers, Socrates, are of necessity longer; but I will do my
 21 Text |          you think that there is no necessity for him to rule himself;
 22 Text |            he who does well must of necessity be happy and blessed, and


Laws
    Book
 23 1    |         really good thing, but as a necessity; a man might as well say
 24 2    |           you agree that he will of necessity live basely? You will surely
 25 4    |         population or other similar necessity, or when a portion of a
 26 4    |        violence of war and the hard necessity of poverty are constantly
 27 5    |          every mortal being must of necessity hang and depend with the
 28 5    |             city which is driven by necessity to legislate upon such matters
 29 5    |            be able to fight against necessity.~Wherefore let us suppose
 30 6    |            or by reason of absolute necessity, if the five denounce him
 31 6    |          consequence of some urgent necessity. The wardens of the agora
 32 6    |          disregards. And if at last necessity plainly compels him to be
 33 6    |           change aught; or, if some necessity overtakes them, the magistrates
 34 6    |        please, and that there is no necessity of order in all things;
 35 7    |       melodies and rhythms which of necessity belong to them; and those
 36 7    |            earnest about them—a sad necessity constrains us. And having
 37 7    |          war; and if there were any necessity that they should fight for
 38 7    |           himself can fight against necessity”;—he meant, if I am not
 39 7    |             am not mistaken, divine necessity; for as to the human necessities
 40 7    |          parts of knowledge. For so necessity grounded in nature constrains
 41 8    |             which the legislator of necessity omits; and I may remark
 42 8    |    experience of the usefulness and necessity of such laws; and when they
 43 8    |            I mean that the earth of necessity produces and nourishes the
 44 9    |       simply bound under some great necessity which cannot be deferred
 45 9    |            to be at leisure, not of necessity building, but rather like
 46 9    |             murderous act should of necessity suffer that which he has
 47 9    |            if a mother, he shall of necessity take a woman’s nature, and
 48 9    |           state. Unfortunate is the necessity of having to legislate for
 49 9    |          such courts, but where the necessity exists, the legislator should
 50 9    |            legislator legislates of necessity, and in the hope that there
 51 10   |           which have been formed by necessity. After this fashion and
 52 10   |            the soul’s kindred be of necessity prior to those which appertain
 53 10   |          next place, must we not of necessity admit that the soul is the
 54 10   |             or the contrary must of necessity carry round and order and
 55 11   |         consequence of some fate or necessity, the best women were compelled
 56 11   |             his father would not of necessity cease to be a citizen, but
 57 12   |        these cases, first comes the necessity of providing remedy for
 58 12   |            see, things happening by necessity, and not by an intelligent


Lysis
    Part
 59 Text |            in like manner, ‘That of necessity the most like are most full
 60 Text |             no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.~Lysis


Menexenus
    Part
 61 Text |       yourself if there should be a necessity, and if the Council were
 62 Text |       Athenians in the same yoke of necessity in which they had bound


Meno
    Part
 63 Intro|        impersonal form was a mental necessity to the first thinkers of
 64 Intro|             only a consciousness of necessity. Truth, he says, is the


Parmenides
    Part
 65 Intro|           do, he was more under the necessity of separating the divine
 66 Intro|         point, they still remain, a necessity of our moral nature, better
 67 Text |          will say that they must of necessity be unknown to man; and he
 68 Text |          number remain which has no necessity to be?~None whatever.~Then
 69 Text |         being of this nature, is of necessity both at rest and in motion?~
 70 Text |            being a part, be also of necessity one?~Certainly.~And will


Phaedo
    Part
 71 Intro|     authority of the Church, on the necessity of such a belief to morality
 72 Intro|             there still remains the necessity of allowing the permanence
 73 Intro|            excessive toil; when the necessity of providing for the body
 74 Intro|             partly derived from the necessity of punishing the greater
 75 Intro|            soul is derived from the necessity of retribution. The wicked
 76 Text |           all opposites there is of necessity a similar alternation; I
 77 Text |         there is precisely the same necessity for the one as for the other;
 78 Text |           explain the cause and the necessity of this being so, and then


Phaedrus
    Part
 79 Intro|          They recognize ‘a POETICAL necessity in the writings of their
 80 Text |          manageable; hence he is of necessity displeased at his possession
 81 Text |           leave him if he can help; necessity and the sting of desire
 82 Text |       self-moving, and therefore of necessity unbegotten and immortal?
 83 Text |          and the driving of them of necessity gives a great deal of trouble
 84 Text |           movement of wings.’) is a necessity to him.’~You may believe
 85 Text |        would recognize a rhetorical necessity in the succession of the


Philebus
    Part
 86 Intro|           the Philebus he urges the necessity of filling up all the intermediate
 87 Intro|            sphere, when we speak of necessity and free-will, of mind and
 88 Intro|       natural affections and in the necessity of some degree of truth
 89 Intro|         happiness. Whence comes the necessity of them? Why are some actions
 90 Text |      ignorance or from some unhappy necessity.~PROTARCHUS: Certainly that
 91 Text |          which comes into being, of necessity come into being through
 92 Text |             whatever must always of necessity be fatal, both to the elements


Protagoras
    Part
 93 Intro|             who is compelled by the necessity of his nature to be a partisan,
 94 Text |           even the gods war against necessity.’~All this has a similar


The Republic
    Book
 95 1    |          men who are injured are of necessity made unjust? ~That is the
 96 1    |         care about honor. Wherefore necessity must be laid upon them,
 97 1    |      enjoyment themselves, but as a necessity, and because they are not
 98 2    |           so against their will, of necessity, but not as a good. And
 99 2    |            him individually, but of necessity, for wherever anyone thinks
100 2    |             yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our
101 2    |            they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up
102 2    |             if there is an absolute necessity for their mention, a chosen
103 3    |             there is no pressure of necessity, and he is seeking to persuade
104 3    |             to leave; the strain of necessity and the strain of freedom,
105 4    |     remaining one. ~That follows of necessity. ~If we are asked to determine
106 5    |             they will be drawn by a necessity of their natures to have
107 5    |             I think? ~Yes, he said; necessity, not geometrical, but another
108 5    |    geometrical, but another sort of necessity which lovers know, and which
109 5    |           of the person a matter of necessity. ~That is good, he said. ~
110 5    |           to being and ignorance of necessity to not-being, for that intermediate
111 6    |     majority bad, which question of necessity brought us back to the examination
112 6    |         will he be? ~Yes, Socrates; necessity will compel him. ~And yet,
113 6    |            there is a still greater necessity, which has not been mentioned. ~
114 6    |          not obliged, the so-called necessity of Diomede will oblige him
115 6    |             State, and until a like necessity be laid on the State to
116 6    |   detraction. ~Of course. ~And if a necessity be laid upon him of fashioning,
117 6    |        anyone say that they must of necessity be destroyed; that they
118 7    |          together by persuasion and necessity, making them benefactors
119 7    |         will take office as a stern necessity, and not after the fashion
120 8    |       taming them by reason, but by necessity and fear constraining them,
121 8    |         enough. ~And there being no necessity, I said, for you to govern
122 8    |             disposed-there being no necessity also, because some law forbids
123 8    |            trained in the school of necessity, into the freedom and libertinism
124 9    |         power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless,
125 9    |          idea that if there were no necessity for them, he would rather
126 9    |            advantage; for he has of necessity always known the taste of
127 9    |           his experience has not of necessity tasted-or, I should rather
128 10   |         whether from choice or from necessity, made one bed in nature
129 10   |             extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions
130 10   |       spindle turns on the knees of Necessity; and on the upper surface
131 10   |             the Fates, daughters of Necessity, who are clothed in white
132 10   |           Lachesis, the daughter of Necessity. Mortal souls, behold a
133 10   |        choosing a new life, must of necessity become different. But there
134 10   |        passed beneath the throne of Necessity; and when they had all passed,


The Sophist
    Part
135 Intro|           still maintained, and the necessity of taking Theaetetus along
136 Intro|             by the abstract idea of necessity; or though accustomed, like
137 Intro|          language. Hence arises the necessity of examining speech, opinion,
138 Intro|         impelled by an irresistible necessity from one idea to another
139 Intro|            is a figure. Freedom and necessity, mind and matter, the continuous
140 Intro|        time-honoured controversy of necessity and free-will, or the Eleatic
141 Intro|            are sometimes termed, of necessity and freedom, of idea and
142 Intro|   reconciliation of mind and body a necessity, not only of speculation
143 Intro|         sight of facts. Nor can the necessity which is attributed to it
144 Text |            three, and yet always of necessity intermingling with them,
145 Text |          that what is other must of necessity be what it is in relation
146 Text |         than being, it is clearly a necessity that not-being should be.
147 Text |           philosophy. Moreover, the necessity for determining the nature


The Statesman
    Part
148 Intro|           part, there is no similar necessity for a part to be a class.
149 Intro|             go; and the world, by a necessity of its nature, turned back,
150 Intro|             question of freedom and necessity, both in relation to God
151 Intro|           there is also a numerical necessity for the successive births
152 Intro|           touches on the subject of necessity and free-will. The words
153 Text |             but there is no similar necessity that a part should be a
154 Text |            about and by an inherent necessity revolves in the opposite
155 Text |           to this tradition they of necessity sprang from the earth and
156 Text |             of the universe, and of necessity agreeing with that in their
157 Text |          never felt the pressure of necessity. For all these reasons they
158 Text |          inclination, and, from the necessity of an evil nature, are violently


The Symposium
    Part
159 Intro|         were done then were done of necessity and not of love. For love
160 Text |          them be true, were done of Necessity and not of Love; had Love
161 Text |              for they were ruled by Necessity; but now since the birth
162 Text |         that what is not fair is of necessity foul, or what is not good


Theaetetus
    Part
163 Intro|           or stripes, but the fatal necessity of becoming more and more
164 Intro|        begin to rise. Plato saw the necessity of combating the illogical
165 Intro|    experience, which seem to have a necessity to us in proportion to the
166 Intro|         thus led to remark that the necessity in our ideas of space on
167 Intro|         slight degree only from the necessity which appears to belong
168 Intro|           another way in which this necessity may be explained. We have
169 Intro|           therefore we speak of the necessity of our ideas of space we
170 Intro|             remember that this is a necessity which has grown up with
171 Intro|    Inductive Method: it has not the necessity of Mathematics: it does
172 Intro|           against them (Freedom and Necessity), and what is that which
173 Text |            that the great man is of necessity as ill-mannered and uneducated
174 Text |        among the gods in heaven, of necessity they hover around the mortal
175 Text |         that there is the slightest necessity for doing so. Were not you


Timaeus
    Part
176 Intro|             admitting an element of necessity which reason is incapable
177 Intro|         that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and
178 Intro|           are other works done from necessity, which we must now place
179 Intro|            of both, mind persuading necessity as far as possible to work
180 Intro|           harmonized them as far as necessity permitted.~The probable
181 Intro|           These are the elements of necessity which the Creator received
182 Intro|             the good; for food is a necessity, and the river of speech
183 Intro|     repulsion; or the conception of necessity allied both to the regularity
184 Intro|           in many ways, as fate, or necessity, or measure, or limit. Unexpected
185 Intro|             subject to a remnant of necessity which he cannot wholly overcome.
186 Intro|       irregularity and disorder, of necessity and chance, which is only
187 Intro|        wanderings of the planets, a necessity which protrudes through
188 Intro|        space, existing by a sort of necessity and hardly distinguishable
189 Intro|           get rid of the element of necessity which is allowed to enter.
190 Intro|             similar confusion about necessity and free-will, and about
191 Intro|          subject to the dominion of necessity in his after life; in the
192 Intro|             speculative doctrine of necessity has often been supported
193 Text |       becomes or is created must of necessity be created by some cause,
194 Text |      created must, as we affirm, of necessity be created by a cause. But
195 Text | unchangeable, and must therefore of necessity, if this is admitted, be
196 Text |         that which is created is of necessity corporeal, and also visible
197 Text |            they will all of them of necessity come to be the same, and
198 Text |           be implanted in bodies by necessity, and be always gaining or
199 Text |            all these appearances of necessity arise, when the fire from
200 Text |             come into being through necessity—for the creation is mixed,
201 Text |             mixed, being made up of necessity and mind. Mind, the ruling
202 Text |             ruling power, persuaded necessity to bring the greater part
203 Text |            reason got the better of necessity, the universe was created.
204 Text |           existence that it must of necessity be in some place and occupy
205 Text |           most stable bases must of necessity be of such a nature. Now,
206 Text |           everywhere God, as far as necessity allowed or gave consent,
207 Text |           are the elements, thus of necessity then subsisting, which the
208 Text |          grows up in us by a law of necessity, does not admit of the combination
209 Text |         together, since its life of necessity consisted of fire and breath,
210 Text |           in this way everything of necessity at last comes round to that
211 Text |            use in a case of extreme necessity, but in any other will be