The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           with them and asking them questions! In another world they do
  2 Text |             man to death for asking questions: assuredly not. For besides


Charmides
    Part
  3 PreS |             is often real. The same questions are discussed by them under
  4 PreS |           retained. There are other questions familiar to the moderns,
  5 Intro|            logic implied in the two questions: whether there can be a
  6 Intro|            banquet’ of metaphysical questions in which we ‘taste of many
  7 Intro|             the Platonic ideas; the questions, whether virtue can be taught;
  8 Text |         professed to know about the questions which I ask, and as though


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|  philological speculation; and many questions were beginning to be asked
 10 Intro|        which were parallel to other questions about justice, virtue, knowledge,
 11 Intro|           he who can ask and answer questions—in short, the dialectician?
 12 Intro|             their habit of spinning questions; for eirein is equivalent
 13 Intro|      understood. Many merely verbal questions have been eliminated; the
 14 Intro|        consonants, and the like—are questions of which we only ‘entertain
 15 Intro|          other. A few well-selected questions may lead the student at
 16 Intro|             These are a few crucial questions which give us an insight
 17 Text |             he who knows how to ask questions?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 18 Text |           think that I ask tiresome questions, and am leaping over the
 19 Text |            will persevere with your questions.~HERMOGENES: Well, then,


Crito
    Part
 20 Text |            separately enumerate? In questions of just and unjust, fair
 21 Text |             of asking and answering questions. Tell us,—What complaint


Euthydemus
    Part
 22 Intro|           language, under which all questions relating to words and propositions
 23 Intro|        perceive that some important questions begin to emerge. Here, as
 24 Text |           is only willing to answer questions.~He is quite accustomed
 25 Text |      friends often come and ask him questions and argue with him; and
 26 Text |         greatest benefit from their questions.~Whichever he answers, said
 27 Text |            good!~Like all our other questions, Socrates, he replied—inevitable.~
 28 Text |             him through a series of questions the same as before.~Do you
 29 Text |             one of those ridiculous questions which I am afraid to ask,
 30 Text |            in answer to each of his questions, that they knew all things.
 31 Text |             do as you say; ask your questions once more, and I will answer.~
 32 Text |         said.~If you will answer my questions, said Dionysodorus, I will
 33 Text |          good would come out of the questions, which I was impatient to


Euthyphro
    Part
 34 Intro|            that all these difficult questions cannot be resolved in a
 35 Text |         great interest in religious questions, and now, as he charges
 36 Text |       rather say that these are the questions which they are always arguing,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 37 Pre  |         suggesting some interesting questions to the scholar and critic,
 38 Intro|            Socrates, by a series of questions, compels him to admit that
 39 Intro|         attained the truth, but the questions which he asks bring others
 40 Intro|           is narrowed by successive questions, and virtue is shown to
 41 Text |           you be troubled at having questions to answer?~ALCIBIADES: Not
 42 Text |        Proceed.~SOCRATES: Answer my questions—that is all.~ALCIBIADES:
 43 Text |             state, for when you put questions to me I am of different
 44 Text |         discovery?~SOCRATES: Answer questions, Alcibiades; and that is


Gorgias
    Part
 45 Intro|           there arise various other questions, such as the two famous
 46 Intro|          refused to answer any more questions. The presentiment of his
 47 Intro|              among the multitude of questions’ which agitate human life ‘
 48 Intro|     proceeds to ask him a number of questions, which are answered by him
 49 Intro|       Socrates shall answer his own questions. ‘Then,’ says Socrates, ‘
 50 Intro|           and not less so in asking questions which were beyond the horizon
 51 Intro|            Gorgias is not to answer questions about a future world, but
 52 Intro|             dialogue are some other questions, which may be briefly considered:—~
 53 Intro|            an interest in the great questions which surround them. They
 54 Intro|        thousand miles away from the questions of the day. Yet perhaps
 55 Text |              but will he answer our questions? for I want to hear from
 56 Text |      Socrates; and indeed to answer questions is a part of his exhibition,
 57 Text |             undertake to answer any questions which you are asked?~GORGIAS:
 58 Text |          continue to ask and answer questions, Gorgias, as we are at present
 59 Text |              and answer shortly the questions which are asked of you?~
 60 Text |           argument by your captious questions—(do you seriously believe
 61 Text |             friend, but you ask two questions at once.~POLUS: How two
 62 Text |             at once.~POLUS: How two questions?~SOCRATES: Why, did you
 63 Text |            to you that here are two questions in one, and I will answer
 64 Text |          style; but if you have any questions to ask of me, either prove
 65 Text |           about little and unworthy questions.~GORGIAS: What matter? Your
 66 Text |           ask these little peddling questions, since Gorgias wishes to
 67 Text |           suppose that we ask a few questions of one another. Tell me,
 68 Text |            person were to ask these questions of you, what would you answer?


Laches
    Part
 69 Text |      pleased to hear you answer the questions which Socrates asks, if
 70 Text |            and answer one another’s questions: for, as he has well said,
 71 Text |           and I do not remember the questions which I am going to ask,


Laws
    Book
 72 1    |        opinion, Stranger, about the questions which are now being raised,
 73 2    |             I will repeat my former questions to one of them, and suppose
 74 6    |              or to put one of those questions, to which, when asked by
 75 6    |           friends who know best the questions at issue. And if he be unable
 76 7    |          with one another in asking questions, which will be a fair, better
 77 9    |            in like manner put their questions and go through the cause,
 78 9    |          one may easily imagine the questions which have to be asked in
 79 10   |        afraid that the stream of my questions might create in you who
 80 10   |            had better first ask the questions and then answer them myself
 81 10   |        depths of the argument. When questions of this sort are asked of
 82 10   |            three; and there are two questions which may be raised about
 83 12   |           us distribute the subject questions and answers.~Cleinias. Once


Lysis
    Part
 84 Intro|             some older person.~SOME QUESTIONS RELATING TO FRIENDSHIP.~
 85 Intro|            the casuistical or other questions which arise out of the relations
 86 Text |             I asked Lysis some more questions. I dare say, Lysis, I said,


Menexenus
    Part
 87 Pre  |         suggesting some interesting questions to the scholar and critic,


Meno
    Part
 88 Intro|           the natural answer to two questions, ‘Whence came the soul?
 89 Text |          you the habit of answering questions in a grand and bold style,
 90 Text |         SOCRATES: Attend now to the questions which I ask him, and observe
 91 Text |       anything, but only asking him questions; and now he fancies that
 92 Text |           frequently asked the same questions, in different forms, he
 93 Text |        himself, if he is only asked questions?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
 94 Text |           into knowledge by putting questions to him, his soul must have


Parmenides
    Part
 95 Intro|            very well pleased at the questions which were raised; nevertheless,
 96 Intro|           in some points he touches questions which have not yet received
 97 Intro|        these and similar hypotheses questions of great interest might
 98 Intro|          service; proceed with your questions.’—The result may be summed
 99 Intro|        Being. No one can answer the questions which Parmenides asks of
100 Intro|             Socrates. And yet these questions are asked with the express
101 Intro|             do not realize that the questions which he is discussing could


Phaedo
    Part
102 Intro|             is given by us to these questions, there still remains the
103 Intro|         state.~There are some other questions which are disturbing to
104 Intro|          find that many of the same questions have already arisen: there
105 Text |          said Cebes, is afforded by questions. If you put a question to
106 Text |           we ask and when we answer questions. Of all this we may certainly
107 Text |           upon the answers to these questions.~Very true, he said.~Now
108 Text |   attainment of any certainty about questions such as these in the present
109 Text |           with the consideration of questions such as these:—Is the growth


Phaedrus
    Part
110 Intro|        which are possible?~To these questions many answers may be given,
111 Text |         shown in them—these are the questions which we sought to determine,


Philebus
    Part
112 Intro|       Socrates shall answer his own questions, as well as other defects
113 Intro|            excess. And here several questions arise for consideration:—
114 Intro|    principle of good. Some of these questions reappear in Aristotle, as
115 Intro|         into the distance, the many questions of modern philosophy which
116 Text |          begin by clearing up these questions.~SOCRATES: That is what
117 Text |         better not stir him up with questions.~SOCRATES: Good; and where
118 Text |         perplex us, and keep asking questions of us to which we have not
119 Text |       Socrates; but why repeat such questions any more?~SOCRATES: Then


Protagoras
    Part
120 Text |           So I examined him and put questions to him. Tell me, Hippocrates,
121 Text |           physical and astronomical questions, and he, ex cathedra, was
122 Text |           determining their several questions to them, and discoursing
123 Text |            and to me, who am asking questions on his account. When you
124 Text |           this, he replied: You ask questions fairly, and I like to answer
125 Text |             I have answered as many questions as he likes to ask, let
126 Text |             agree that he would ask questions; and when he had put a sufficient
127 Text |        replies. He began to put his questions as follows:—~I am of opinion,
128 Text |          ought to be able to answer questions about the dialect of Simonides.
129 Text |            other interest in asking questions of you but that of clearing
130 Text |             these subjects, and ask questions and consult with you? I
131 Text |          refreshed by you about the questions which I was asking you at
132 Text |      whenever I am busy about these questions, in Promethean care of my


The Republic
    Book
133 1    |            suppose that I ask these questions with any design of injuring
134 4    |           say? there may also arise questions about any impositions and
135 5    |              You imply that the two questions must be combined, I replied.
136 5    |         able to fit answers to your questions better than another-that
137 6    |           there were not many other questions awaiting us, which he who
138 6    |             in asking and answering questions; these littles accumulate,
139 7    |             in asking and answering questions? ~Yes, he said, you and
140 7    |             are to be assigned, are questions which remain to be considered. ~
141 8    |             and let me ask the same questions, and do you give me the
142 9    |         conjecture only; for of all questions, this respecting good and
143 9    |             and you shall answer my questions. ~Proceed. ~Say, then, is


The Seventh Letter
    Part
144 Text |           teaching on philosophical questions. These, it seems, were attempting
145 Text |       discussions with Dionysios on questions connected with such subjects,
146 Text |            whatever into writing on questions of this nature; it has often
147 Text |            writing or in replies to questions, appear to most of his hearers


The Sophist
    Part
148 Intro|             of Being, asked no more questions, and never thought of applying
149 Intro|   contradictories may be true, many questions which lie at the threshold
150 Text |   controversy, which is cut up into questions and answers, and this is
151 Text |             that, and, unless these questions are decided in one way or
152 Text |            be justly asked the same questions which we ourselves were
153 Text |           them, by putting the same questions to you which I did to them,
154 Text |            of being, let us put our questions to them as well as to our
155 Text |           friends.~THEAETETUS: What questions?~STRANGER: Shall we refuse


The Statesman
    Part
156 Intro|         remain unanswered.’ Similar questions have occupied the minds
157 Intro| incidentally many valuable remarks. Questions of interest both in ancient
158 Intro|        honest, his mode of deciding questions would introduce an element


The Symposium
    Part
159 Intro|          Agathon. The result of his questions may be summed up as follows:—~
160 Intro|    professes to have asked the same questions and to have obtained the
161 Intro|           of Phaedrus he asks a few questions, and then he throws his
162 Text |           to ask Agathon a few more questions, in order that I may take
163 Text |             said Phaedrus: put your questions. Socrates then proceeded


Theaetetus
    Part
164 Intro|            the answer to both these questions difficult.~1. In reply to
165 Intro|            which an answer to these questions can be obtained, we may
166 Intro|          are two, or more, sides to questions; and these are parted among
167 Intro|      Theodorus is too old to answer questions, and begs him to interrogate
168 Intro|          and, when this and similar questions were brought to him from
169 Intro|          and without suggesting the questions which naturally arise in
170 Intro|        standard of truth?~These two questions have not been always clearly
171 Intro|            may briefly consider two questions—first their relation to
172 Text |          right of putting to us any questions which he pleases...Why is
173 Text |           often, when the report of questions asked by you was brought
174 Text |         made against me, that I ask questions of others and have not the
175 Text |             your best to answer the questions which I will ask you. And
176 Text |           you have thought of these questions before now.~THEAETETUS:
177 Text |            not?) those many strange questions.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
178 Text |             so on without end. Such questions might have been put to you
179 Text |         Socrates, that when you ask questions about any assertion of mine,
180 Text |             if you like you may put questions to me—a method to which
181 Text |            must beg you to put fair questions: for there is great inconsistency
182 Text |           to be just talking—asking questions of herself and answering
183 Text |         have heard these perplexing questions raised?~THEAETETUS: I have.~


Timaeus
    Part
184 Intro|             There are several other questions which we might ask and which
185 Intro|          modern ideas as about some questions of astronomy and physics,
186 Intro|             there remain one or two questions of which the investigation
187 Text |          because I must first raise questions concerning fire and the
188 Text |         settle this point, and what questions about the elements may be