Charmides
    Part
  1 Intro|  philosophy in which knowledge and action were not yet distinguished.
  2 Text |            sway over us; then each action will be done according to


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|          And speaking is a kind of action, and naming is a kind of
  4 Intro|         analogy of causes still in action, some powerful and sudden,
  5 Intro|           of the sap in trees; the action of it is uniform, but the
  6 Intro|         organs of speech and their action there remains the informing
  7 Intro|            the other laws of human action, admit of exceptions. The
  8 Intro|          language to the conscious action of the human mind...Lastly,
  9 Intro|           human speech, like human action, though very far from being
 10 Intro|            in any other process or action of the human mind.~ii. Imitation
 11 Intro|         corresponds to a motion or action of man or beast or movement
 12 Intro|           not due to any conscious action of the human mind; nor is
 13 Text |            And speech is a kind of action?~HERMOGENES: True.~SOCRATES:
 14 Text |           if speaking is a sort of action and has a relation to acts,
 15 Text |          not naming also a sort of action?~HERMOGENES: True.~SOCRATES:
 16 Text |       edone is e (eta) onesis, the action which tends to advantage;


Euthydemus
    Part
 17 Text |            such thing as erroneous action, for a man cannot fail of
 18 Text |           philosophy and political action are both good, but tend


Euthyphro
    Part
 19 Intro|   Euthyphro too is plaintiff in an action for murder, which he has
 20 Intro|           to another, and the same action may be both pious and impious;
 21 Text |           his way to bring such an action.~EUTHYPHRO: Indeed, Socrates,
 22 Text |       impious thing in bringing an action against your father?~EUTHYPHRO:
 23 Text |        they? Is not piety in every action always the same? and impiety,
 24 Text |          say that such and such an action is pious, such another impious.~
 25 Text |            ask you to tell me what action is both pious and impious:
 26 Text |             for granting that this action may be hateful to the gods,
 27 Text |      condemn and abominate such an action. But I will amend the definition
 28 Text |      meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous
 29 Text |           passion implies previous action or passion. It does not
 30 Text |        about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 31 Text |           consider which course of action will be most expedient;
 32 Text |         going to steer a ship into action, would you only aim at being
 33 Text |            to accomplish any noble action really worthy of yourself


Gorgias
    Part
 34 Intro|         right. His great motive of action is political ambition; in
 35 Intro|         words are coextensive with action, such as arithmetic, geometry,
 36 Intro|          his own ideal of life and action. And we may sometimes wish
 37 Intro|          is a leading principle of action. Hence a certain element
 38 Intro|          and virtue at the time of action and without regard to consequences
 39 Intro|           in the performance of an action which was attended only
 40 Text |         with some sort of external action, as of the hand; but there
 41 Text |         hand; but there is no such action of the hand in rhetoric
 42 Text |    language, and require either no action or very little, as, for
 43 Text |           nearly co-extensive with action, but in most of them the
 44 Text |            have the quality of the action? I mean, for example, that
 45 Text |     patient, and has principles of action and reason in each case,
 46 Text |           to the regular order and action of the soul, and these make
 47 Text |         and crimes with which each action has stained him, and he


Laches
    Part
 48 Text |            possess in nearly every action that is worth mentioning
 49 Text |            or in any other sort of action.~LACHES: You would be quite
 50 Text |         out in this or any similar action, having no knowledge of
 51 Text |          had courage who saw us in action, but not, I imagine, he


Laws
    Book
 52 6    |           this law will do a noble action; but he who will not obey,
 53 6    |         men who are associated any action always succeed when they
 54 7    |        what we mean; when word and action combine, and not till then,
 55 7    |        engaged in war and vehement action, and is the exercise of
 56 7    |        postures which are those of action, as, for example, the imitation
 57 7    |          bodies and souls, and the action is direct and muscular,
 58 7    |          can not carry out both in action, if he is to have any degree
 59 7    |          regard as his standard of action the praises and injunctions
 60 8    |           any noble or illustrious action; but those who are themselves
 61 8    |        objection to performing any action, holy, or unholy and utterly
 62 9    |          inference is, that a just action in partaking of the just
 63 9    |      against his will. Now that an action which is voluntary should
 64 9    |          to be attained by word or action, with pleasure or pain,
 65 9    |         slave shall reliable to an action for kidnapping. And if any
 66 10   |         these elements, not by the action of mind, as they say, or
 67 10   |          is co–incident with every action and every passion, and is
 68 10   |           as far as may be, has an action and passion appropriate
 69 11   |        sort, shall have a right of action against the party who has
 70 11   |           of age, and may bring an action if she have no husband;
 71 12   |            a reproach, or bring in action against some innocent person
 72 12   |          obtains leave to bring an action should write, down the charges,
 73 12   |          not adequate in speech or action, and have no adequate knowledge
 74 12   |            of virtue in speech and action than the many have? or is
 75 12   |       words, and carry them out in action, judging of what is and


Menexenus
    Part
 76 Text |        continent, for that was the action to which the Hellenes looked


Meno
    Part
 77 Intro|       preferred the poet or man of action to the philosopher, or the
 78 Intro|       there is no reality in human action and no place for right and
 79 Intro|        sphere of science and human action are tending to go beyond
 80 Text |            this; but declare every action to be virtue which is done
 81 Text |           can only say, that every action done with a part of virtue
 82 Text |       meaning of saying that every action done with justice is virtue?
 83 Text |       remarked that right and good action is possible to man under
 84 Text |           are true guides to us of action—there we were also right?~
 85 Text |            good a guide to correct action as knowledge; and that was
 86 Text |         only is the guide of right action; whereas there is also right
 87 Text |           leading the way perfects action quite as well as knowledge?~
 88 Text |       knowledge, or less useful in action; nor is the man who has


Phaedo
    Part
 89 Intro|            the strongest motive of action can survive the conflict
 90 Text |          apt to interfere with the action of the poison; persons who
 91 Text |           he who considers them in action and operation. However,


Phaedrus
    Part
 92 Intro|        stirring scenes of life and action which would make a man of


Philebus
    Part
 93 Intro|           into the region of human action and feeling. To him, the
 94 Intro|            with the production and action and passion of this sensible
 95 Intro|       intellectual aspect of human action which occurred to him. He
 96 Intro|            with right, and that no action can be right which does
 97 Intro|         reflection, by a course of action likely to confirm them.
 98 Intro|      inferior to none as a rule of action. From the days of Eudoxus (
 99 Intro|       rather in aspiration than in action, and have been found unequal
100 Intro|        admitting that in all right action there is an element of happiness,
101 Intro|         Now the phenomena of moral action differ, and some are best
102 Intro|     question Will such and such an action promote the happiness of
103 Intro|          freedom; ‘Act so that thy action may be the law of every
104 Text |          disgraceful nature of the action makes us ashamed; and so


Protagoras
    Part
105 Text |         more fitted for speech and action; for the life of man in
106 Text |          you choose that course of action in which the painful is
107 Text |           you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is


The Republic
    Book
108 1    |           he try to go beyond just action? ~He would not. ~And how
109 1    |          more than the just man or action, in order that he may have
110 1    |           them incapable of common action? ~Certainly. ~And even if
111 1    |       rendered incapable of united action by reason of sedition and
112 1    |         rendering him incapable of action because he is not at unity
113 1    |            are incapable of common action; nay, more, that to speak
114 1    |          been utterly incapable of action. That, as I believe, is
115 3    |          be trained to imitate the action or speech of men or women
116 3    |            comes on some saying or action of another good man-I should
117 3    |            is performing some good action; at other times he will
118 3    |            of peace and freedom of action, when there is no pressure
119 4    |            condition just and good action, and the knowledge which
120 4    |      condition he will call unjust action, and the opinion which presides
121 7    |  distinguished themselves in every action of their lives, and in every
122 7    |        were performing some heroic action, but simply as a matter
123 9    |           carries his passion into action, be in the like case, whether
124 10   |            inanimate, and of every action of man, is relative to the
125 10   |        endures to the end of every action and occasion of his entire


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
126 Text |    knowledge of the best course of action:—and the best and the useful
127 Text |           carry out their ideas in action they will be losers rather


The Seventh Letter
    Part
128 Text |           public life, I postponed action till a suitable opportunity
129 Text |           betrayed, so far as your action was concerned? Had I been
130 Text |         Dionysios took the form of action.~To proceed-when Dion had
131 Text |            time, whereas immediate action is called for by the disorders
132 Text |            However, I went, and my action on this occasion at any
133 Text |            reside there, taking no action there against Dionysios
134 Text |           Dionysios-our ground for action being the breach of faith


The Sophist
    Part
135 Intro|    generation,’ ‘motion,’ ‘rest,’ ‘action,’ ‘passion,’ and the like.~
136 Intro|           class of words describes action, another class agents: ‘
137 Intro|           and antithesis, a law of action and of reaction. In politics
138 Intro|           cannot trace this law of action and reaction. They are both
139 Intro| distinction between reflection and action, between the human and divine.~
140 Text |       STRANGER: That which denotes action we call a verb.~THEAETETUS:
141 Text |           other words which denote action, however many of them you
142 Text |          there is no expression of action or inaction, or of the existence
143 Text |            in which a thing and an action are combined, by the help


The Statesman
    Part
144 Intro|    exclusively, and the other with action; arithmetic and the mathematical
145 Intro|           knowledge rather than to action. For a king rules with his
146 Intro|           again, and has a reverse action during infinite ages. This
147 Intro|            infinite ages. This new action is spontaneous, and is due
148 Intro|            wanting in the power of action; the courageous fall short
149 Intro|            them in justice, but in action are superior to them: and
150 Intro|         nicely balanced as to make action and movement impossible.~
151 Text |   knowledge, wholly separated from action?~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
152 Text |           mean, both in speech and action, and is not this a reality,
153 Text |           occasion a difficulty in action; and the excellence or beauty
154 Text |     statesman nor any other man of action can be an undisputed master
155 Text |            the true particulars of action as far as they admit of
156 Text |           within his own sphere of action by his art without regard
157 Text |         knowledge is divorced from action, can we wonder, Socrates,
158 Text |        concerned with some special action of their own, have, as they
159 Text |            the opposite classes of action under which they fall. When
160 Text |           STRANGER: We speak of an action as energetic and brave,
161 Text |         praise the quiet strain of action also?~YOUNG SOCRATES: To
162 Text |       steadiness and gentleness in action, of smoothness and depth
163 Text |      caution, but has the power of action in a remarkable degree,
164 Text |            of the web of political action, which is created by a direct


The Symposium
    Part
165 Intro|           like every other sort of action, according to the manner
166 Text |         him; and so noble did this action of hers appear to the gods,
167 Text |            admiration of her noble action, they have granted the privilege


Theaetetus
    Part
168 Intro|         that motion has two forms, action and passion, out of which
169 Intro|   confident adversary, suiting the action to the word, shuts one of
170 Intro|          that explanation of human action is deemed to be the truest
171 Intro|        intermingled with them: (5) action, in which the mind moves
172 Intro|           that part of the complex action which is the most prominent.
173 Intro|            why, by the spontaneous action of the mind itself or by
174 Intro|            the processes of mental action, but the conditions of which
175 Text |            who will not allow that action or generation or anything


Timaeus
    Part
176 Intro|          described the most famous action in which the Athenian people
177 Intro|          which are produced by the action of external forces. And
178 Intro|         part of the process to the action of the body itself. The
179 Intro|            is the condition of the action of the other two,—the interpenetration
180 Intro|     supposed to be effected by the action of the internal fire, which
181 Intro|        affinities and the chemical action of one body upon another
182 Text |         finds hard to carry out in action, and still harder adequately
183 Text |        what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which
184 Text |      Amynander.~About the greatest action which the Athenians ever
185 Text |           and of their most famous action; the exact particulars of
186 Text |          motion—all this makes the action of fire violent and sharp,
187 Text |       being created by the cutting action of fire and by the impression