The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|      either in life or death. His absolute truthfulness seems to hinder


Charmides
    Part
  2 Intro|        the first conception of an absolute self-determined science (
  3 Text |          other things involves an absolute contradiction; and in other
  4 Text |        defining, and that she has absolute sway over us; then each


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|           literary art is not the absolute proportion of the whole,
  6 Intro|         Symposium and Republic of absolute beauty and good; but he
  7 Intro|         an effect,—too much of an absolute, too little of a relative
  8 Text |        for mind, as they say, has absolute power, and mixes with nothing,
  9 Text |    whether there is or is not any absolute beauty or good, or any other
 10 Text |      beauty or good, or any other absolute existence?~CRATYLUS: Certainly,


Critias
    Part
 11 Intro|         Each of the ten kings was absolute in his own city and kingdom.
 12 Text |           in his own city had the absolute control of the citizens,


Euthydemus
    Part
 13 Intro|           same or not the same as absolute beauty?’ Socrates replies
 14 Text |            May we not answer with absolute truth—A knowledge which
 15 Text |          They are not the same as absolute beauty, but they have beauty


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 16 Pre  |          do we propose to draw an absolute line of demarcation between
 17 Text |          it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a
 18 Text |           meant, when I said that absolute existence must be first
 19 Text |   considered; but now, instead of absolute existence, we have been


Laws
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 20 6    |       commanders, or by reason of absolute necessity, if the five denounce
 21 9    |         yet if he be possessed of absolute and irresponsible power,
 22 10   |        speak the most perfect and absolute truth, when we say that
 23 12   |        there is a great or rather absolute difference between him who
 24 12   |          by the interpreters with absolute authority. Their sepulchres


Menexenus
    Part
 25 Pre  |          do we propose to draw an absolute line of demarcation between


Meno
    Part
 26 Intro| transferred to the subject; while absolute truth is reduced to a figment,


Parmenides
    Part
 27 Intro|         some passages regarded as absolute and eternal, and in others
 28 Intro|        surprised to hear that the absolute one is also many. For example,
 29 Intro|        maintains the existence of absolute ideas will affirm that they
 30 Intro|       meaning?’ ‘Perfectly.’ ‘And absolute knowledge in the same way
 31 Intro|           same way corresponds to absolute truth and being, and particular
 32 Intro|          think we must admit that absolute knowledge is the most exact
 33 Intro|     involved in the assumption of absolute ideas; the learner will
 34 Intro|           between human truth and absolute truth, between gods and
 35 Intro|         ideas in us and the ideas absolute. The first of these two
 36 Intro|        many nor of all, but of an absolute and perfect whole or one.
 37 Intro|         each’ implies, is also an absolute one. And both the whole
 38 Intro|           of view untrue, nothing absolute which is not also relative (
 39 Text |          a person could prove the absolute like to become unlike, or
 40 Text |          to become unlike, or the absolute unlike to become like, that,
 41 Text |          were to show me that the absolute one was many, or the absolute
 42 Text |     absolute one was many, or the absolute many one, I should be truly
 43 Text |           And would you also make absolute ideas of the just and the
 44 Text |           Suppose that you divide absolute greatness, and that of the
 45 Text |    portion of greatness less than absolute greatness—is that conceivable?~
 46 Text |     portion of equality less than absolute equality, be equal to some
 47 Text |          into view over and above absolute greatness, and the individuals
 48 Text |         affirming the ideas to be absolute?~Yes, indeed.~And, further,
 49 Text |        maintains the existence of absolute essences, will admit that
 50 Text |           they would be no longer absolute.~True, he said; and therefore
 51 Text |       slave; now there is nothing absolute in the relation between
 52 Text |         will not knowledge—I mean absolute knowledge—answer to absolute
 53 Text |      absolute knowledge—answer to absolute truth?~Certainly.~And each
 54 Text |       Certainly.~And each kind of absolute knowledge will answer to
 55 Text |       will answer to each kind of absolute being?~Yes.~But the knowledge
 56 Text |            No, we cannot.~And the absolute natures or kinds are known
 57 Text |        are known severally by the absolute idea of knowledge?~Yes.~
 58 Text |       because we have no share in absolute knowledge?~I suppose not.~
 59 Text |           would you not say, that absolute knowledge, if there is such
 60 Text |         thing as participation in absolute knowledge, no one is more
 61 Text |        But then, will God, having absolute knowledge, have a knowledge
 62 Text |         each one of them to be an absolute unity. He who hears what
 63 Text |     everything has a class and an absolute essence; and still more
 64 Text |        But, consider:—Are not the absolute same, and the absolute other,
 65 Text |        the absolute same, and the absolute other, opposites to one
 66 Text |          wholly absent.~True.~But absolute greatness is only greater
 67 Text |    greatness is only greater than absolute smallness, and smallness
 68 Text |    smallness is only smaller than absolute greatness.~Very true.~Then


Phaedo
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 69 Intro|         with the higher notion of absolute equality. But here observe
 70 Intro|        short of the conception of absolute equality with which they
 71 Intro|           degrees of good. Of the absolute goodness of any finite nature
 72 Intro|         evil both as relative and absolute; just as the riddles about
 73 Intro|          the eternal being of the absolute soul. There has been a clearer
 74 Intro|        Not that he insists on the absolute truth of his own particular
 75 Text |          there or is there not an absolute justice?~Assuredly there
 76 Text |        Assuredly there is.~And an absolute beauty and absolute good?~
 77 Text |        And an absolute beauty and absolute good?~Of course.~But did
 78 Text |        not of these alone, but of absolute greatness, and health, and
 79 Text |          and above this, there is absolute equality? Shall we say so?~
 80 Text |           know the nature of this absolute essence?~To be sure, he
 81 Text |           the same sense in which absolute equality is equal? or do
 82 Text |           matter of equals and of absolute equality?~Precisely.~Then
 83 Text |           equals strive to attain absolute equality, but fall short
 84 Text |          recognize also that this absolute equality has only been known,
 85 Text |         sensible things aim at an absolute equality of which they fall
 86 Text |           have had a knowledge of absolute equality, or we could not
 87 Text |     always repeating, there is an absolute beauty, and goodness, and
 88 Text |      beauty, and goodness, and an absolute essence of all things; and
 89 Text |    speaking, have a most real and absolute existence; and I am satisfied
 90 Text |           assume that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and
 91 Text |     anything beautiful other than absolute beauty should there be such,
 92 Text |          as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and I should say
 93 Text |           thinking, not only that absolute greatness will never be


Phaedrus
    Part
 94 Intro|           this world, but justice absolute in existence absolute, and
 95 Intro|     justice absolute in existence absolute, and so of the rest. And
 96 Intro|         imperfectly the vision of absolute truth. All her after existence,
 97 Intro|      placed side by side with the absolute forms of justice, temperance,
 98 Intro|          visible beauty, like the absolute purity and goodness which
 99 Text |         temperance, and knowledge absolute, not in the form of generation
100 Text |          existence, but knowledge absolute in existence absolute; and
101 Text |   knowledge absolute in existence absolute; and beholding the other


Philebus
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102 Intro|           who sought to prove the absolute existence of the one by
103 Intro|          cannot understand how an absolute unity, such as the Eleatic
104 Intro|        the finite, expressing not absolute vacancy or negation, but
105 Intro|          while good is exalted as absolute. But this distinction seems
106 Intro|         which may be conceived as absolute and unchangeable, and then
107 Intro|         the Republic, this is the absolute and unapproachable being.
108 Intro|     pleasure the character of the absolute good. Yes, retorts Socrates,
109 Intro|          to pain the character of absolute evil. And therefore the
110 Intro|   relative is for the sake of the absolute; and generation is for the
111 Text |       pleasure and mind to be the absolute good have been entirely


The Republic
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112 2    |       silence. But if there is an absolute necessity for their mention,
113 5    |        not to be understood as an absolute prohibition of the marriage
114 5    |         should in nothing fail of absolute justice; or may we be satisfied
115 5    |      inquiring into the nature of absolute justice and into the character
116 5    |     incapable of seeing or loving absolute beauty. ~True, he replied. ~
117 5    |  beautiful things has no sense of absolute beauty, or who, if another
118 5    |       recognizes the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish
119 5    |         many points of view, that absolute being is or may be absolutely
120 5    |        between pure being and the absolute negation of being? ~Yes,
121 5    |   interval between pure being and absolute not-being; and that the
122 5    |          opinion that there is no absolute or unchangeable idea of
123 5    |           and who yet neither see absolute beauty, nor can follow any
124 5    |        see the many just, and not absolute justice, and the like-such
125 5    |             But those who see the absolute and eternal and immutable
126 5    |         tolerate the existence of absolute beauty. ~Yes, I remember. ~
127 6    |      painter's eye to look at the absolute truth and to that original
128 6    |       believe in the existence of absolute beauty rather than of the
129 6    |         many beautiful, or of the absolute in each kind rather than
130 6    |           they will first look at absolute justice and beauty and temperance,
131 6    |         he said. ~And there is an absolute beauty and an absolute good,
132 6    |         an absolute beauty and an absolute good, and of other things
133 6    |            is applied there is an absolute; for they may be brought
134 6    |       which they draw, but of the absolute square and the absolute
135 6    |           absolute square and the absolute diameter, and so on-the
136 7    |           who have never yet seen absolute justice? ~Anything but surprising,
137 7    |           decision asks, "What is absolute unity?" This is the way
138 7    |     anyone who attempts to divide absolute unity when he is calculating,
139 7    |        far to the true motions of absolute swiftness and absolute slowness,
140 7    |         of absolute swiftness and absolute slowness, which are relative
141 7    |           on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only,
142 7    |          at the perception of the absolute good, he at last finds himself
143 7    |        not an image only, but the absolute truth, according to my notion.
144 7    |        appeals to opinion, but to absolute truth, never faltering at
145 7    |      company with truth to attain absolute being: And here, my friend,
146 7    |        all things, and behold the absolute good; for that is the pattern
147 8    |      longer protector, but tyrant absolute. ~No doubt, he said. ~And


The Sophist
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148 Intro|         is and is not in the most absolute sense. Thus we have discovered
149 Intro|          finite and infinite, the absolute and relative are not really
150 Intro|        positive infinity, and the absolute is the sum or correlation
151 Intro|       arrived at the infinite and absolute, they seemed to be lost
152 Intro|          Hegel has shown that the absolute and infinite are no more
153 Intro|        before we arrive at a true absolute or a true infinite. The
154 Intro|   conceptions of the infinite and absolute as ordinarily understood
155 Text |        the belief that he has the absolute power of making whatever
156 Text |        only one of one, and being absolute unity, will represent a
157 Text |           the condition cannot be absolute unity?~THEAETETUS: Why not?~
158 Text |       there be such a thing as an absolute whole, being lacks something
159 Text |          difficulty, or rather an absolute impossibility, in getting
160 Text |           are relative as well as absolute?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
161 Text |           other, like being, were absolute as well as relative, then
162 Text |         be sure.~STRANGER: And if absolute motion in any point of view


The Statesman
    Part
163 Intro|           to the demonstration of absolute truth.~We may now divide
164 Text |           to the demonstration of absolute truth; meanwhile, the argument
165 Text |     longer be allowed to exercise absolute control either over freemen


The Symposium
    Part
166 Intro|         changing, but eternal and absolute; not bounded by this world,
167 Text |       there is succession and not absolute unity: a man is called the
168 Text |           other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting,
169 Text |          arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows
170 Text |           contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once
171 Text |           in another man, but his absolute unlikeness to any human


Theaetetus
    Part
172 Intro|        the combination of them is absolute at each moment. (In modern
173 Intro|           to the contemplation of absolute justice or injustice in
174 Intro|      quality; but neither has any absolute existence? But now we make
175 Intro|        cease to be ourselves. The absolute and infinite, whether explained
176 Intro|          his philosophy into that absolute negation in which Heracliteanism
177 Text |         before, not as having any absolute existence, but as being
178 Text |        agent nor patient have any absolute existence, but when they


Timaeus
    Part
179 Intro|   connection between the world of absolute being and of generation,
180 Intro|   frequency of participles and of absolute constructions gives the
181 Intro|          we expect to find in him absolute consistency. He is apt to
182 Intro|           He means (4) to draw an absolute distinction between the
183 Intro|         he has done away with the absolute existence of past and future.)
184 Intro|          would have the effect of absolute immobility. To which it
185 Text |      sting of lust, seeks to gain absolute sway; and the same is the