The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|     self-examination, and of those principles of truth and right which


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|          found, as if by accident, principles of philology which are unsurpassed
  3 Intro|     pleasure. This is one of those principles which, whether applied to
  4 Intro|           euphony, to be formative principles; and he admits a certain
  5 Intro|        take especial care of first principles. But are words really consistent;
  6 Intro|            has discovered the true principles of language, and then (II)
  7 Intro|            the two great formative principles of language, when they have
  8 Intro|       frame language on artificial principles. Philosophers have sometimes
  9 Intro|       anticipations of the general principles of philology, we may note
 10 Intro|           of fancy, and allows his principles to drop out as if by accident.~
 11 Intro|         languages have some common principles, there is no primitive form
 12 Intro|     himself thought that the first principles of philosophy could be elicited
 13 Intro|            to consider some of the principles or natural laws which have
 14 Intro|            and simplest of all the principles of language, common also
 15 Intro|            variance with the first principles of language is possible
 16 Intro|       accident, that is to say, by principles which are unknown to us.
 17 Intro|        Study of Language;’ Paul’s ‘Principles of the History of Language:’
 18 Text |            this is the best of all principles; and the next best is to
 19 Text |   transparent, and agrees with the principles which preceded, for all
 20 Text |         consideration of his first principles:—are they or are they not


Crito
    Part
 21 Intro|        betray the right. Are these principles to be altered because the
 22 Text |        repudiate my own words: the principles which I have hitherto honoured
 23 Text |         once find other and better principles, I am certain not to agree
 24 Text |         wrong? Do I not desert the principles which were acknowledged


Euthydemus
    Part
 25 Intro|         They do not understand the principles of combination, and hence


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 26 Pre  |       value.~Proceeding upon these principles we appear to arrive at the
 27 Intro|            he asserts that the two principles of justice and expediency
 28 Text |         too, would address them on principles of justice?~ALCIBIADES:
 29 Text |           men quarrelling over the principles of health and disease to
 30 Text |       pretending to understand the principles of justice and injustice,


Gorgias
    Part
 31 Intro|            easily brought down his principles to his practice. Philosophy
 32 Intro|       nature we must not allow our principles to sink to the level of
 33 Intro|           that there are permanent principles of politics which are always
 34 Text |          affairs, according to the principles now in vogue; or whether
 35 Text |            of the patient, and has principles of action and reason in


Laches
    Part
 36 Text |         like proceeding from first principles. For if we knew that the


Laws
    Book
 37 1    |       because you go back to first principles you have thrown a light
 38 1    |            considering the natural principles of right and wrong in laws.~
 39 1    |            nature, without correct principles of music; these are necessary
 40 1    |           in vanquishing the other principles. And thus the moral of the
 41 2    |          to be, or having the same principles, that they are never the
 42 2    |           one another:—Are not the principles of education and music which
 43 2    |     Athenian. Then, if such be our principles, we must assert that imitation
 44 3    |            always have the noblest principles; in it there is no insolence
 45 3    |         Athenian. And what are the principles on which men rule and obey
 46 3    |           you see, legislator, the principles of government, how many
 47 3    |            not in harmony with the principles which they had agreed to
 48 3    |      understanding;—these were our principles, were they not?~Megillus.
 49 4    |         this is one of those false principles of government to which we
 50 4    |          And there were many other principles, if you remember, and they
 51 4    |            if you please, with the principles which we have been laying
 52 5    |            or interest. That these principles are best, any one may see
 53 6    |             These are our original principles; and do you now, fixing
 54 6    |          master by the three great principles of fear and law and right
 55 7    |       Stranger, to put aside these principles of gymnastic and wrestling
 56 7    |       shall lay down as one of our principles of song—~Cleinias. What?~
 57 7    |          three years; for opposite principles are confusing, and create
 58 7    |            education attend to the principles concerning music which we
 59 7    |  strengthen these no less than the principles of law which are sanctioned
 60 8    |           in doubt between the two principles; the one exhorting him to
 61 8    |      second notion of right. Three principles will comprehend all those
 62 9    |     enacted would seem to announce principles directly opposed to what
 63 9    |           never remain firm in his principles or persist in regarding
 64 10   |         thing by law, and that the principles of justice have no existence
 65 10   |           refusing to maintain the principles of them to the utmost of
 66 10   |       which of the above–mentioned principles of motion would first spring
 67 10   |           must act from one of two principles.~Cleinias. What are they?~
 68 11   |          were managed on incorrupt principles, they would be honoured
 69 12   |            does not know these two principles—that the soul is the eldest


Lysis
    Part
 70 Text |        assume that there are three principles—the good, the bad, and that
 71 Text |          Suppose that of the three principles, good, evil, and that which


Menexenus
    Part
 72 Pre  |       value.~Proceeding upon these principles we appear to arrive at the


Meno
    Part
 73 Intro|          others, because he has no principles, and is incapable of collecting
 74 Intro|          The germs of two valuable principles of education may also be
 75 Intro|            and also with the first principles of ethics; or again they
 76 Intro|          or mathematical truths or principles.~In the Timaeus, which in
 77 Intro|       relegates the more important principles of ethics to custom and


Parmenides
    Part
 78 Intro|         willing to assume ideas or principles of the just, the beautiful,
 79 Intro|           one of the most familiar principles of modern philosophy, that


Phaedo
    Part
 80 Intro|       Plato, which says that first principles should be most constantly
 81 Intro|            of God and in the first principles of morality.~3. At the outset
 82 Intro|       believed to be the governing principles of another.’ All the analogies
 83 Intro| enthusiastic devotion to the first principles of morality. Through these
 84 Text |           and I may add that first principles, even if they appear certain,


Phaedrus
    Part
 85 Intro|            all of us there are two principles—a better and a worse—reason
 86 Intro|        will be found to embody two principles: first, that of synthesis
 87 Intro|         written word, and that the principles of justice and truth when
 88 Intro|  compositions are based upon these principles, then they are not only
 89 Intro|       framed upon real dialectical principles. But dialectic is not rhetoric;
 90 Intro|      politics, who thinks of first principles and of true ideas? We avowedly
 91 Intro|        their indifference to first principles, their stupidity, their
 92 Text |         are two guiding and ruling principles which lead us whither they
 93 Text |          any such insight into his principles of composition.~SOCRATES:
 94 Text |         the hour were involved two principles of which we should be too
 95 Text |          until you arrive at first principles; for, as I said at first,
 96 Text |          we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness
 97 Text |         seriousness, and that such principles are a man’s own and his


Philebus
    Part
 98 Intro|           world, he extended their principles to the whole, finding in
 99 Intro|         and highest in the list of principles or elements is the cause
100 Intro|            distinguished.~The four principles are required for the determination
101 Intro|       arrange in order the general principles of things. Mind is ascertained
102 Intro|            supposed to include two principles as widely different as benevolence
103 Intro|            is right and wrong. The principles of morality, when not at
104 Intro|            gained belief for their principles by their practice. Two of
105 Intro|          comparing them with other principles which equally claim to lie
106 Intro|       These and a few other simple principles, as they have endless applications
107 Intro|       under which the most general principles of morals may be presented
108 Intro|          be most required in first principles of ethics are, (1) that
109 Intro|            hold on us, the general principles must also be psychologically
110 Intro|         explain them adequately on principles of utility; in attempting
111 Intro|        been excluded. All men have principles which are above their practice;
112 Intro|          benevolence from a priori principles. In politics especially
113 Intro|           not always require broad principles; duties often come home
114 Intro|          origin of ethics from the principles of them— the historical
115 Intro|         There are three subjective principles of morals,—sympathy, benevolence,
116 Intro|            the legal and political principles of morals—freedom, equality,
117 Intro|          like other transcendental principles of ethics, in being too
118 Intro|            there are the religious principles of morals:—the will of God
119 Intro|       passed in review the various principles of moral philosophy, we
120 Text |            Let us assume these two principles, and also a third, which
121 Text |            not the addition of the principles aforesaid introduce a limit,
122 Text |         SOCRATES: Here are two new principles.~PROTARCHUS: What are they?~


Protagoras
    Part
123 Text |         justice to be the ordering principles of cities and the bonds


The Republic
    Book
124 1    |           given to you on received principles; but now I perceive that
125 2    |            be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to
126 2    |           agree, he said, in these principles, and promise to make them
127 3    |        SUCH, then, I said, are our principles of theology-some tales are
128 3    |          Yes; and I think that our principles are right, he said. ~But
129 3    |          that there are some three principles of rhythm out of which metrical
130 3    |        said. ~And as there are two principles of human nature, one the
131 3    |            in order that these two principles (like the strings of an
132 3    |    necessary. ~Such, then, are our principles of nurture and education:
133 3    |  auxiliaries and supporters of the principles of the rulers. ~I agree
134 4    |        supposed, a number of great principles, but trifles all, if care
135 4    |         that he has the same three principles in his own soul which are
136 4    |           the soul has these three principles or not? ~An easy question!
137 4    |           of us there are the same principles and habits which there are
138 4    |       proceed to ask whether these principles are three or one; whether,
139 4    |       determine that there are two principles existing in the soul. And
140 4    |      latter case, instead of three principles in the soul, there will
141 4    |        fairly agreed that the same principles which exist in the State
142 4    |          man who is trained in the principles of such a State, will be
143 4    |           bound together the three principles within him, which may be
144 5    |  accordance with these fundamental principles. ~Very good. ~Our State,
145 6    |            of what he means by the principles or passions of which he
146 6    |            hypotheses not as first principles, but only as hypotheses-that
147 7    |        know that there are certain principles about justice and honor,
148 7    |      ministers they are, and whose principles will be exalted by them
149 8    |          she shows of all the fine principles which we solemnly laid down
150 9    |       pacifying the two irrational principles, he rouses up the third,
151 9    |         brought up in his father's principles. ~I can imagine him. ~Then
152 9    |         remaining, to these better principles he puts an end, and casts
153 9    |           divided by us into three principles, the division may, I think,
154 9    |          to me that to these three principles three pleasures correspond;
155 9    |            either of the two other principles prevails, it fails in attaining
156 10   |        them is one of the inferior principles of the soul? ~No doubt. ~
157 10   |   necessarily implies two distinct principles in him? ~Certainly. ~One


The Seventh Letter
    Part
158 Text |      readily attracted towards the principles and manner of life described
159 Text |         his country.~These are the principles in accordance with which
160 Text |      highest matters and the first principles of things, he has, so I


The Sophist
    Part
161 Intro|         all the intervening middle principles, until, as he also says
162 Intro|          theories of two and three principles, hot and cold, moist and
163 Intro|         for gain about the general principles of right and wrong.~And
164 Intro|         discord or war of opposite principles in the soul; and deformity
165 Intro|       universe: one spoke of three principles warring and at peace again,
166 Intro|           children; another of two principles, hot and cold, dry and moist,
167 Intro|         separations of two or more principles? I used to think, when I
168 Intro|        things. Thus there are five principles: (1) being, (2) motion,
169 Intro|         Yet he is merely asserting principles which no one who could be
170 Intro|          of opinion, with abstract principles. But objects of sense must
171 Intro|          be verified; the abstract principles must be filled up and connected
172 Intro|         Few attain to a balance of principles or recognize truly how in
173 Intro|       again there are two opposite principles, of immediate experience
174 Intro|           to one-sided or abstract principles. In this age of reason any
175 Text |         said that there were three principles, and that at one time there
176 Text |           and another spoke of two principles,—a moist and a dry, or a
177 Text |   conclusion that to unite the two principles is safer, and to say that
178 Text |          and cold or any other two principles are the universe, what is
179 Text |            say that one of the two principles is being, and yet attribute


The Statesman
    Part
180 Intro|      subordinate to him. (7) Fixed principles are implanted by education,
181 Intro|     another courage. These are two principles which are in a manner antagonistic
182 Intro|            by education the higher principles; and where they exist there
183 Intro|           word and the spirit; the principles of obligation and of freedom;
184 Text |        STRANGER: That they are two principles which thoroughly hate one


The Symposium
    Part
185 Intro|          too is concerned with the principles of love in their application
186 Intro|          Eryximachus says that the principles of music are simple in themselves,
187 Intro|           this jest; three serious principles seem to be insinuated:—
188 Text |         too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application
189 Text |            also full of both these principles; and when, as I was saying,


Theaetetus
    Part
190 Intro|         the Cratylus, in which the principles of rest and motion are again
191 Intro|         they are at war with fixed principles.’ I suppose, Theodorus,
192 Intro|            another did not involve principles of another kind which were
193 Intro|          of mankind. It appeals to principles which they all know and
194 Text |           mutual relation of these principles,— whether they are consistent


Timaeus
    Part
195 Intro|         humorous purpose with true principles of language; in the Parmenides
196 Intro|          now speaking of the first principles of things, because I cannot
197 Intro|         and the other bodies; what principles are prior to these God only
198 Intro|            to form a conception of principles, but these principles or
199 Intro|           of principles, but these principles or ideas were regarded by
200 Intro|           be contrary to the first principles of criticism and fatal to
201 Intro|         essence (compare the three principles of the Philebus—the finite,
202 Intro|          Plato is based on the two principles of the same and the other,
203 Intro|          endowed with thought; the principles of the same and other exist
204 Intro|         theory is dependent on two principles largely employed by Plato
205 Intro|          there are certain general principles, such as the opposition
206 Text |      maintain them to be the first principles and letters or elements
207 Text |          of the first principle or principles of all things, or by whatever
208 Text |          the other bodies; but the principles which are prior to these
209 Text |            framed on the following principles:—~The authors of our race