Charmides
    Part
  1 Text |           such wisdom ordering the government of house or state would


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|          regarded as the origin of government? Will not a man be able
  3 Intro|         place had endless forms of government, and been sometimes rising,


Critias
    Part
  4 Text |           their minds the order of government; their names are preserved,


Crito
    Part
  5 Text |        like), and the laws and the government come and interrogate me: ‘
  6 Text |          and you acquiesced in our government of you; and here in this
  7 Text |      praised by you for their good government, or to some other Hellenic
  8 Text |         enemy, Socrates, and their government will be against you, and


Euthydemus
    Part
  9 Text |        which is the source of good government, and which may be described,


Gorgias
    Part
 10 Intro|           own enjoyment and in the government of others. Had Critias been
 11 Intro|           and then administers the government of his own country; and
 12 Intro|             and under all forms of government. Then when the storm descends
 13 Intro|           faire’ nor the ‘paternal government’ principle; but he will,
 14 Intro|            for the people what the government can do for them, and what,
 15 Intro|            observe that the art of government, while in some respects
 16 Intro|          was immediately under the government of God; it was a state of
 17 Intro|             and man is left to the government of himself. The world begins
 18 Intro|           between human and divine government. He has also carried a step
 19 Text |           and holding the reins of government, the envy and admiration


Laws
    Book
 20 1    |            give an account of your government and laws; on our way we
 21 1    |           what is the principle of government which you would lay down?
 22 3    |          regarded as the origin of government? Will not a man be able
 23 3    |          of them had every form of government many times over, now growing
 24 3    |            development of forms of government.~Cleinias. Very good. You
 25 3    |         already existing a form of government which, if I am not mistaken,
 26 3    |         and barbarians, and is the government which is declared by Homer
 27 3    |            fact that such forms of government sometimes arise.~Cleinias.
 28 3    |            them, because with them government originated in the authority
 29 3    |          this altered state of the government they will live.~Cleinias.
 30 3    |           speak of a third form of government, in which all other forms
 31 3    |           or was any other form of government ever destroyed, by any but
 32 3    |          which were under a kingly government, and the cities to the kings,
 33 3    |      legislator, the principles of government, how many they are, and
 34 3    |           the constitution of your government was still feverish and excited,
 35 3    |      saviour, perceiving that your government was still swelling and foaming,
 36 3    |         instructed us what sort of government would have been or will
 37 3    |          been able to moderate the government of the three kingdoms and
 38 3    |           have both these forms of government in a measure; the argument
 39 3    |         maladministration of their government, which is owing to the excess
 40 3    |            must pass in review the government of Attica in like manner,
 41 3    |            by any means so good as government by others when properly
 42 3    |           we selected two kinds of government, the despotic, and the other
 43 3    |          Cnosians; and the Cnosian government to me and nine others. And
 44 4    |            operate with him in the government of human affairs. There
 45 4    |          shortest time the form of government which is most conducive
 46 4    |           I suppose, that the best government is produced from a tyranny,
 47 4    |     tyranny into a perfect form of government takes place most easily;
 48 4    |         such a change, because the government is in the hands of a number
 49 4    |           in any powerful forms of government, whether in a monarchy or
 50 4    |           of these classes his own government is to be referred?~Megillus.
 51 4    |             what I should call the government of Lacedaemon, for it seems
 52 4    |        precisely say which form of government the Spartan is.~Cleinias.
 53 4    |            the established form of government; this is thought by them
 54 4    |          those false principles of government to which we were referring.~
 55 4    |            entirely monopolize the government, as to refuse all share
 56 4    |            we must not entrust the government in your state to any one
 57 5    |            a despot, sets up a new government and laws, even if he attempt
 58 5    |           there are three forms of government, the best, the second and
 59 5    |            of the state and of the government and of the law is that in
 60 6    |      constitution and the order of government is not to deteriorate, but
 61 6    |        than accept another form of government, which is likely to make
 62 8    |        discord, in which while the government is voluntary, the subjects
 63 9    |      illegal attempt to change the government. The judges of such cases
 64 9    |        consideration every form of government, and ascertain what is best
 65 9    |          purpose of subverting the government. A man may very likely commit
 66 10   |      follow, and will be under the government of art and mind.~Cleinias.
 67 11   |     tolerably well–ordered city or government. Wherefore the legislator
 68 12   |        things which in a state and government give not only health and
 69 12   |            be the salvation of our government and of our laws, and how


Menexenus
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 70 Text |        lived and made themselves a government, which I ought briefly to
 71 Text |        briefly to commemorate. For government is the nurture of man, and
 72 Text |            nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and
 73 Text |          were trained under a good government, and for this reason they
 74 Text |            speaking generally, our government was an aristocracy—a form
 75 Text |           an aristocracy—a form of government which receives various names,
 76 Text |           really an aristocracy or government of the best which has the
 77 Text |       ruler. The basis of this our government is equality of birth; for


Phaedo
    Part
 78 Intro|          difficulties in the moral government of the universe. Sometimes
 79 Intro|        that law and constitutional government have superseded despotism
 80 Intro|      cannot suppose that the moral government of God of which we see the


Phaedrus
    Part
 81 Text |           then as always under the government of shame, refrains from


Philebus
    Part
 82 Intro|   obedience to law: the best human government is a rational despotism,


Protagoras
    Part
 83 Text |           which was to deceive the government, who were not blinded by
 84 Text |          but not as yet the art of government, of which the art of war
 85 Text |         together, having no art of government, they evil intreated one


The Republic
    Book
 86 1    |          never heard that forms of government differ-there are tyrannies,
 87 1    |              Yes, I know. ~And the government is the ruling power in each
 88 1    |         And the different forms of government make laws democratical,
 89 1    |       which is the interest of the government; and as the government must
 90 1    |         the government; and as the government must be supposed to have
 91 3    |       required in our State if the government is to last. ~Yes, he will
 92 4    |   guardians of the laws and of the government are only seeming and not
 93 4    | institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the
 94 4    | institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the
 95 4    |         form only; for whether the government is in the hands of one or
 96 6    |         BOOK VI: THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~AND
 97 7    |            own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.
 98 7    |             in the first place, no government patronizes them; this leads
 99 7    |            about the State and the government is not a mere dream, and
100 8    |           BOOK VIII: FOUR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT~(SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~AND
101 8    |        what were the four forms of government of which you spoke, and
102 8    |         approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils:
103 8    |        other intermediate forms of government. But these are nondescripts
104 8    |           of many curious forms of government which exist among them. ~
105 8    |     individual, and begin with the government of honor?-I know of no name
106 8    |         know of no name for such a government other than timocracy or
107 8    |         inquire how timocracy (the government of honor) arises out of
108 8    |            out of aristocracy (the government of the best). Clearly, all
109 8    |          actual governing power; a government which is united, however
110 8    |           the change. ~And the new government which thus arises will be
111 8    |  Undoubtedly, he said, the form of government which you describe is a
112 8    |        husband has no place in the government, of which the consequence
113 8    |           said, the second form of government and the second type of character? ~
114 8    |         order. ~And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? ~
115 8    |          do you term oligarchy? ~A government resting on a valuation of
116 8    |           to have any share in the government. These changes in the constitution
117 8    |    characteristics of this form of government, and what are the defects
118 8    |            is not this true of the government of anything? ~I should imagine
119 8    |          oligarchy, or the form of government in which the rulers are
120 8    |            and this is the form of government in which the magistrates
121 8    |           life, and what sort of a government have they? for as the government
122 8    |   government have they? for as the government is, such will be the man. ~
123 8    |      better in which to look for a government. ~Why? ~Because of the liberty
124 8    |        which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder,
125 8    |           equilibrium, putting the government of himself into the hands
126 8    |          but above all in forms of government. ~True. ~The excess of liberty,
127 8    |            be emancipated from the government of the rich and aristocratic,
128 9    |         BOOK IX: ON WRONG OR RIGHT GOVERNMENT, AND THE PLEASURES OF EACH~(
129 9    |            the wretchedest form of government, and the rule of a king
130 9    |           possible, under the same government, friends and equals. ~True,


The Seventh Letter
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131 Text |     opinion as Dion about forms of government. But it is well worth while
132 Text |        rulers of the revolutionary government, namely eleven in the city
133 Text |          time they made the former government seem by comparison something
134 Text |         the thirty and the form of government as it then was. And once
135 Text |     affairs. Well, even in the new government, unsettled as it was, events
136 Text |            the name of any form of government which maintains justice
137 Text |            than one, if, while the government is being carried on methodically
138 Text |          outside the path of right government and flatly refuse to move
139 Text |     adviser that he must leave the government alone and make no change
140 Text |        culture, should neglect the government and leave it in his hands,
141 Text |     advance towards constitutional government and the framing of the justest


The Statesman
    Part
142 Intro|            man but God; and such a government existed in a former cycle
143 Intro|            sense, the true form of government is that which has scientific
144 Intro|            any of the six forms of government which prevail in the world.
145 Intro|            As in the Republic, the government of philosophers, the causes
146 Intro|       under their various forms of government. (5) His characteristic
147 Intro|     implume,’ and put the reins of government into his hands.~Here let
148 Intro|          to the animals. Under his government there were no estates, or
149 Intro|          art of governing into the government of willing and unwilling
150 Intro|     science. Nor am I referring to government officials, such as heralds
151 Intro|         What are the true forms of government? Are they not three—monarchy,
152 Intro|         worthy of the name? Is not government a science, and are we to
153 Intro|            suppose that scientific government is secured by the rulers
154 Intro|          political science. A true government must therefore be the government
155 Intro|   government must therefore be the government of one, or of a few. And
156 Intro|             that there can be good government without law.’~I must explain:
157 Intro|            law. This is scientific government, and all others are imitations
158 Intro|           nearest approach to true government is, when men do nothing
159 Intro|           a tyrant. These forms of government exist, because men despair
160 Intro|           over to him the reins of government. But, as there is no natural
161 Intro|           of these untrue forms of government is the least bad, and which
162 Intro|         each of the three forms of government, royalty, aristocracy, and
163 Intro|            neglects, the laws. The government of one is the best and the
164 Intro|         the best and the worst—the government of a few is less bad and
165 Intro|         less bad and less good—the government of the many is the least
166 Intro|       enemies. But the true art of government, first preparing the material
167 Intro|             Of the ideal or divine government of the world we can form
168 Intro|            more and less immediate government of the world.~II. The dialectical
169 Intro|     appears in view—the science of government, which fixes the limits
170 Intro|            first, because all good government supposes a degree of co-operation
171 Intro|          virtue; secondly, because government, whether Divine or human,
172 Intro|           or six received forms of government as better than none. And
173 Intro|             we have three forms of government, which we may venture to
174 Intro|           God, the actual forms of government have to be considered. In
175 Intro|            one of another; and the government has greater power and stability
176 Intro|          the best balanced form of government has been held to be the
177 Intro|          enter into the problem of government. Admitting of course that
178 Intro|     presents the idea of a perfect government, but except the regulation
179 Intro|            ideals, would place the government in a middle class of citizens,
180 Intro|          by Thucydides as the best government of Athens which he had known.
181 Intro|         persons who had a share of government should have received their
182 Intro|           that second best form of government, which, after all, is admitted
183 Text |           differ at all, as far as government is concerned?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
184 Text |         him there were no forms of government or separate possession of
185 Text |      distinct, like their modes of government.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
186 Text |        business connected with the government of states—what shall we
187 Text |      monarchy a recognized form of government?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes.~STRANGER:
188 Text |            next in order comes the government of the few?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
189 Text |           Is not the third form of government the rule of the multitude,
190 Text |            true.~STRANGER: And the government of the few they distinguish
191 Text |           suppose that any form of government which is defined by these
192 Text |          States may the science of government, which is among the greatest
193 Text |           is that any true form of government can only be supposed to
194 Text |         only be supposed to be the government of one, two, or, at any
195 Text |           be the only true form of government in which the governors are
196 Text |         notion of there being good government without laws.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
197 Text |         this the true principle of government, according to which the
198 Text |          wisely, but that the true government is to be found in a small
199 Text |     express it thus:—Supposing the government of which I have been speaking
200 Text |         which these lower forms of government can ever make to the true
201 Text |          can ever make to the true government of the one scientific ruler,
202 Text |      imitate the true form, such a government is called aristocracy; and
203 Text |            can to the true form of government.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
204 Text |           of these untrue forms of government is the least oppressive
205 Text |     speaking of the three forms of government, which I mentioned at the
206 Text |      SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER: The government of the few, which is intermediate
207 Text |          in good and evil; but the government of the many is in every


Theaetetus
    Part
208 Text |            to the consideration of government, and of human happiness


Timaeus
    Part
209 Intro|        second education, or of the government of philosophers.~And now
210 Intro|            body, and evil forms of government and evil discourses are
211 Text | constitution of body evil forms of government are added and evil discourses