The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |            god, and search and make enquiry into the wisdom of any one,
  2 Text |            in this or in any future enquiry.~I have said enough in my


Charmides
    Part
  3 Intro|          from another; and when the enquiry becomes more abstract he
  4 Text |            please, I will share the enquiry with you, but I will not
  5 Text |            true way of pursuing the enquiry, Socrates, he said; for
  6 Text |            medicine must pursue the enquiry into health and disease,
  7 Text |             good for anything at an enquiry. But now I have been utterly
  8 Text |          easy and good-natured, the enquiry is still unable to discover


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|             the final result of the enquiry? Is Plato an upholder of
 10 Intro|         been fatal to the spirit of enquiry or discovery, which is the
 11 Intro|            the path of philological enquiry. It might be well sometimes
 12 Text |          and proposing to share the enquiry with you? But now that you
 13 Text |             to hear the rest of the enquiry about names.~SOCRATES: Then
 14 Text |            a sort of outline of the enquiry? Are there any names which
 15 Text |          very likely. But still the enquiry demands our earnest attention
 16 Text |            must at last give up the enquiry in despair.~HERMOGENES:
 17 Text |          lose heart and give up the enquiry? Must he not stop when he
 18 Text |           them. And in this present enquiry, let us say to ourselves,
 19 Text |          there some other method of enquiry and discovery.~CRATYLUS:
 20 Text |         believe that the methods of enquiry and discovery are of the
 21 Text |            Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears upon the face of


Critias
    Part
 22 Text |         past; for mythology and the enquiry into antiquity are first


Euthydemus
    Part
 23 Intro|         also suggest new methods of enquiry derived from the comparison
 24 Text |             or at least take up the enquiry where I left off, and proceed
 25 Text |        followed; for we resumed the enquiry, and a question of this


Euthyphro
    Part
 26 Text |    statement will stand the test of enquiry.~SOCRATES: We shall know
 27 Text |              If you had pursued the enquiry in the previous cases; for
 28 Text |           What is piety? That is an enquiry which I shall never be weary


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 29 Pre  |              Prior, however, to the enquiry about the writings of a
 30 Text |             conscious ignorance and enquiry? Or did you think that you
 31 Text |          omit, from a fear that the enquiry would be too much protracted.~


Gorgias
    Part
 32 Text |            hereafter examine if the enquiry is likely to be of any service
 33 Text |              Now there is no nobler enquiry, Callicles, than that which
 34 Text |             if I am to carry on the enquiry by myself, I will first


Ion
    Part
 35 Text |       knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one


Laches
    Part
 36 Intro|             rather, to restrict the enquiry to that part of virtue which
 37 Text |             mode of carrying on the enquiry will bring us equally to
 38 Text |            knowledge of a part; the enquiry will thus probably be made
 39 Text |         endure and persevere in the enquiry, and then courage will not


Laws
    Book
 40 1    |        gladly welcome any method of enquiry which is right.~Athenian.
 41 1    |             let us proceed with any enquiry which really bears on our
 42 2    |           right way of pursuing the enquiry), Which are the happier—
 43 2    |           likely to make to such an enquiry?~Athenian. An answer is
 44 3    |             promise us that our new enquiry about legislation would
 45 3    |            to divine?~Cleinias. The enquiry, no doubt, has a bearing
 46 3    |           we shall proceed with our enquiry, and, at the same time,
 47 9    |         proceed to make an adequate enquiry into what has been said;
 48 10   |              with which our present enquiry is concerned.~Cleinias.
 49 10   |        Athenian. I suppose that our enquiry has reference to the soul?~
 50 12   |        without this examination and enquiry a city will never continue


Menexenus
    Part
 51 Pre  |              Prior, however, to the enquiry about the writings of a
 52 Intro|          part of the work makes the enquiry difficult; the introduction


Meno
    Part
 53 Intro|            proposes to continue the enquiry. But how, asks Meno, can
 54 Intro|           stimulate than to satisfy enquiry. Virtue is knowledge, and
 55 Intro|           will arouse the spirit of enquiry in their pupils, and not
 56 Intro|            anything but the duty of enquiry. The doctrine of reminiscence
 57 Intro|           the labour of thought and enquiry (ouden dei to toiouto zeteseos).
 58 Intro|          the temper of the Socratic enquiry is, (4) the proposal to
 59 Intro|              the foundations of the enquiry are laid deeper, and the
 60 Intro|          and by which in scientific enquiry from any part of knowledge
 61 Intro|       working out independently the enquiry into all truth, were unconscious.
 62 Text |             to join with you in the enquiry.~MENO: And how will you
 63 Text |             forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you
 64 Text |             does not faint; for all enquiry and all learning is but
 65 Text |          about the impossibility of enquiry: for it will make us idle;
 66 Text |              and he shall share the enquiry with me: and do you watch
 67 Text |       person of whom we should make enquiry; to him then let us repair.
 68 Text |             with him. To sum up our enquiry—the result seems to be,


Phaedo
    Part
 69 Intro|            depression, and then the enquiry is resumed. It is a melancholy
 70 Text |             invited to share in the enquiry, a hinderer or a helper?
 71 Text |             no need for any further enquiry.~Very true.~But then, O


Phaedrus
    Part
 72 Intro|             novels, to suggest this enquiry, would not the younger ‘


Philebus
    Part
 73 Intro|          the simple forms which the enquiry assumed among the Socratic
 74 Intro|            of them, would be a long enquiry too far removed from the
 75 Intro|        inconsistency into the whole enquiry. We reason readily and cheerfully
 76 Intro|          have come down to us. This enquiry is not really separable
 77 Text |             best to follow, for the enquiry in which we are engaged,
 78 Text |        world, we too ought in every enquiry to begin by laying down
 79 Text |             which is the subject of enquiry; this unity we shall find
 80 Text |             the smallest use in any enquiry.~PROTARCHUS: That seems
 81 Text |             furnish an answer to my enquiry; for they imply that mind
 82 Text |       Socrates.~SOCRATES: Shall the enquiry into these states of feeling
 83 Text |          are raising a very serious enquiry.~PROTARCHUS: There I agree.~
 84 Text |         considered, is, whether the enquiry is relevant to the argument.~
 85 Text |             we care to continue the enquiry; for the present I would
 86 Text |     Protarchus, shall we answer the enquiry?~PROTARCHUS: O Socrates,
 87 Text |             Is not this the sort of enquiry in which his life is spent?~
 88 Text |           one who will, take up the enquiry again and set us right;


Protagoras
    Part
 89 Intro|             would like to renew the enquiry with the help of Protagoras
 90 Text |            said, we must finish the enquiry, and not faint. Do you think
 91 Text |         would you wish to begin the enquiry? I said; or shall I begin?~
 92 Text |            to have your help in the enquiry.~Protagoras replied: Socrates,


The Sophist
    Part
 93 Intro|          Sophist, the second is the enquiry into the nature of Not-being,
 94 Intro|             a labourious process of enquiry, when he had already admitted
 95 Intro|          success in the rest of the enquiry.~Then now let us return
 96 Intro|        result of a long and tedious enquiry; by a great effort he is
 97 Intro|          result of exact or serious enquiry, but is floating in the
 98 Text |           of definition and line of enquiry which we want.~THEAETETUS:
 99 Text |          your mind from this way of enquiry, for never will you show
100 Text |          the real difficulty of the enquiry into the nature of it.~THEAETETUS:
101 Text |          all, let us now pursue the enquiry, as the argument suggests,
102 Text |            the scope of the present enquiry, if peradventure we may
103 Text |           which we proposed to make enquiry?~THEAETETUS: Surely we cannot
104 Text |           thoughts from this way of enquiry.’~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says
105 Text |          opposite of being, to that enquiry we have long said good-bye—


The Statesman
    Part
106 Intro|             The Stranger begins the enquiry by making a division of
107 Intro|       letters in all words? And our enquiry about the Statesman in like
108 Intro| sluggishness.’ And if we pursue the enquiry, we find that these opposite
109 Intro|         originate new directions of enquiry. Plato seems to be conscious
110 Text |        follows next in the order of enquiry. And please to say, whether
111 Text |          seeking the ruler; and our enquiry is not concerned with him
112 Text |          difference in a process of enquiry.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What do
113 Text |             of what was said in the enquiry about the Sophist? (Compare
114 Text |       worked out: this is where the enquiry fails.~YOUNG SOCRATES: I
115 Text |           things, to go on with the enquiry and not desist until he
116 Text |         words.~STRANGER: And is our enquiry about the Statesman intended
117 Text |          the ease or rapidity of an enquiry, not our first, but our
118 Text |             daylight in the present enquiry.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That is
119 Text |         never be recovered, because enquiry would be unlawful. And human
120 Text |        STRANGER: We must extend our enquiry to all those things which
121 Text |       actions; and if we pursue the enquiry, we shall find that men
122 Text |      STRANGER: And returning to the enquiry with which we began, have
123 Text |          the subject of the present enquiry.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very right.~


Theaetetus
    Part
124 Intro|             of his own answers. The enquiry about the nature of knowledge
125 Intro|          design.~The dialogue is an enquiry into the nature of knowledge,
126 Intro|           there? But such a shadowy enquiry is not worth pursuing further.
127 Intro|       mistakes?’ The failure of the enquiry seems to show that we should
128 Intro|          assume.~We may preface the enquiry by two or three remarks:—~(
129 Intro|         which is the subject of our enquiry. We come at once upon the
130 Intro|             to the very form of the enquiry; whereas, in truth, it is
131 Intro|             given a stimulus to the enquiry into them.~Psychology should
132 Text |           the path of knowledge and enquiry; and he is full of gentleness,
133 Text |           to follow a philosophical enquiry than a great many men who


Timaeus
    Part
134 Intro|       number and time, the power of enquiry, and philosophy, which is
135 Intro|         them by our present mode of enquiry. But as I observed the rule
136 Intro|  controversy, or the earnestness of enquiry, will often generate inflammations
137 Intro|             than the absence of all enquiry about them. The tendency
138 Intro|   intelligences in wrong methods of enquiry; and their progress in moral
139 Intro|           philosophy was not a free enquiry, but a growth, in which
140 Intro|      promoting system and assisting enquiry, while in others we hear
141 Intro|             because it answered the enquiry about the origin of the
142 Text |        asked at the beginning of an enquiry about anything—was the world,
143 Text |        which involves a preliminary enquiry into the generation of the
144 Text |           of a strange and unwonted enquiry, and to bring us to the
145 Text |             mind. But, leaving this enquiry, let us proceed to distribute
146 Text |            There is a corresponding enquiry concerning the mode of treatment