Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |        measure, limit, eternity, essence (Philebus; Timaeus): these
  2 Text |  maintained by me to be the very essence of knowledge, and in this


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|       oisis) of the soul towards essence. Ekousion is to eikon—the
  4 Text |          things have a permanent essence of their own?~HERMOGENES:
  5 Text |         own proper and permanent essence: they are not in relation
  6 Text |        and maintain to their own essence the relation prescribed
  7 Text |        difference so long as the essence of the thing remains in
  8 Text |         again osia. Now that the essence of things should be called
  9 Text |         meant that estia was the essence of things. Those again who
 10 Text |           Again, is there not an essence of each thing, just as there
 11 Text |       sound? And is there not an essence of colour and sound as well
 12 Text |     which may be said to have an essence?~HERMOGENES: I should think
 13 Text |        any one could express the essence of each thing in letters
 14 Text |         manner as to imitate the essence or not.~HERMOGENES: Very
 15 Text |          begin? Imitation of the essence is made by syllables and


Euthyphro
    Part
 16 Intro|          piety only, and not the essence. Euthyphro acknowledges
 17 Intro|      attribute only, and not the essence of piety.~Then follows the
 18 Text |       when I ask you what is the essence of holiness, to offer an
 19 Text |      attribute only, and not the essence—the attribute of being loved


Gorgias
    Part
 20 Intro|        sense, truth and opinion, essence and generation, virtue and


Laws
    Book
 21 10   |          I mean that we know the essence, and that we know the definition
 22 10   |       know the definition of the essence, and the name,—these are
 23 10   |         You mean to say that the essence which is defined as the


Lysis
    Part
 24 Intro|         personal attachment. The essence of it is loyalty, without


Parmenides
    Part
 25 Intro|     double sense, substance, and essence, derived from the two-fold
 26 Text |   relation to one another, their essence is determined by a relation
 27 Text |          a class and an absolute essence; and still more remarkable


Phaedo
    Part
 28 Intro|        body. The soul in her own essence, and the soul ‘clothed upon’
 29 Text |         and strength, and of the essence or true nature of everything.
 30 Text |          exact conception of the essence of each thing which he considers?~
 31 Text |          nature of this absolute essence?~To be sure, he said.~And
 32 Text |        we stamp with the name of essence in the dialectical process,
 33 Text |        goodness, and an absolute essence of all things; and if to
 34 Text |        from the existence of the essence of which you speak. For
 35 Text |      discussion. Is that idea or essence, which in the dialectical
 36 Text | dialectical process we define as essence or true existence—whether
 37 Text |        or true existence—whether essence of equality, beauty, or
 38 Text |       because to her belongs the essence of which the very name implies
 39 Text |  participation in its own proper essence, and consequently, as far


Phaedrus
    Part
 40 Intro|        who can tell? There is an essence formless, colourless, intangible,
 41 Intro|   knowledge in their everlasting essence. When fulfilled with the
 42 Text | self-motion is the very idea and essence of the soul will not be
 43 Text | colourless, formless, intangible essence, visible only to mind, the


Philebus
    Part
 44 Intro|          is relative to Being or Essence, and from one point of view
 45 Intro|   exceeding knowledge, exceeding essence, which, like Glaucon in
 46 Intro|         class of generation into essence by the union of the finite
 47 Intro|    generation is for the sake of essence. Under relatives I class
 48 Intro|          view to generation; and essence is of the class of good.
 49 Intro|        the class of good. But if essence is of the class of good,
 50 Intro|          conception of ousia, or essence, is not an advance upon
 51 Text |       then follows the third, an essence compound and generated;
 52 Text |         things, and the other is essence.~PROTARCHUS: I readily accept
 53 Text |          you both generation and essence.~SOCRATES: Very right; and
 54 Text |    generation is for the sake of essence, or essence for the sake
 55 Text |          the sake of essence, or essence for the sake of generation?~
 56 Text |     whether that which is called essence is, properly speaking, for
 57 Text |       the sake of, some being or essence, and that the whole of generation
 58 Text |         relative to the whole of essence.~PROTARCHUS: Assuredly.~
 59 Text |          be for the sake of some essence?~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES:


Protagoras
    Part
 60 Text |      names a separate underlying essence and corresponding thing


The Republic
    Book
 61 4    |          told that when the very essence of the vital principle is
 62 6    |         the true nature of every essence by a sympathetic and kindred
 63 6    |        idea, which is called the essence of each. ~Very true. ~The
 64 6    |           but of their being and essence, and yet the good is not
 65 6    |          and yet the good is not essence, but far exceeds essence
 66 6    |         essence, but far exceeds essence in dignity and power. ~Glaucon
 67 7    |      attains a conception of the essence of each thing? And he who
 68 9    |        invariable. ~And does the essence of the invariable partake
 69 9    |         in the same degree as of essence? ~Yes, of knowledge in the
 70 9    |     truth will also have less of essence? ~Necessarily. ~Then, in
 71 9    |      body have less of truth and essence than those which are in
 72 9    |         itself less of truth and essence than the soul? ~Yes. ~What
 73 10   |    according to our view, is the essence of the bed, but only a particular


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 74 Text |         not the quality, but the essence, each of the four, presenting


The Sophist
    Part
 75 Intro|       frequent use of the words ‘essence,’ ‘power,’ ‘generation,’ ‘
 76 Intro|       from scholastic notions of essence or substance, might still
 77 Intro|    not-just as the just. And the essence of the not-beautiful is
 78 Intro|          an imaginary science of essence, and no longer to retain
 79 Intro|         picture vanishes and the essence is detached in thought from
 80 Intro|         the division into being, essence, and notion, are not the
 81 Intro|     Being, Not-being, existence, essence, notion, and the like challenged
 82 Intro|      example the words ‘Being,’ ‘essence,’ ‘matter,’ ‘form,’ either
 83 Text |        made about generation and essence, we know that such persons
 84 Text |           cannot speak either of essence or generation as existing.~
 85 Text |      another about the nature of essence.~THEAETETUS: How is that?~
 86 Text |         or handled have being or essence, because they define being
 87 Text |    mightily contending that true essence consists of certain intelligible
 88 Text |       and affirm them to be, not essence, but generation and motion.
 89 Text |          of that which they call essence.~THEAETETUS: How shall we
 90 Text |        say—You would distinguish essence from generation?~THEAETETUS: ‘
 91 Text |          through thought in true essence; and essence you would affirm
 92 Text |     thought in true essence; and essence you would affirm to be always
 93 Text |         knows, and that being or essence is known.~THEAETETUS: There
 94 Text |      venture to say so, as truly essence as being itself, and implies


The Symposium
    Part
 95 Text |       and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear


Theaetetus
    Part
 96 Intro|        always searching into the essence of man, and enquiring what
 97 Intro|         men and animals. But the essence of hardness or softness,
 98 Intro|        be ‘Knowledge of being or essence,’— words to which in our
 99 Text |       these have no existence or essence of their own—the truth is
100 Text |         he is searching into the essence of man, and busy in enquiring
101 Text |         would you refer being or essence; for this, of all our notions,
102 Text |         Yes.~SOCRATES: But their essence and what they are, and their
103 Text |      combination of names is the essence of a definition. Thus, then,
104 Text |          he who can describe its essence by an enumeration of the


Timaeus
    Part
105 Intro|       discourses of being and of essence, adopting from old religion
106 Intro|          he made a third nature, essence, which was in a mean between
107 Intro|         same, the other, and the essence, these three, and also divided
108 Intro|      touching anything which has essence, whether divided or undivided,
109 Intro|        the world of change or of essence. When reason is in the neighbourhood
110 Intro|         is involved: Is there an essence of fire and the other elements,
111 Intro|           being,’ or ‘unity,’ or essence,’ or ‘good,’ became sacred
112 Intro|   comprehend all truth. Being or essence, and similar words, represented
113 Intro|          were not, like being or essence, mere vacant abstractions,
114 Intro|    finite and infinite, and made essence, and out of the three combined
115 Intro|       from the eternal ideas, or essence itself from the soul? Or,
116 Intro|       But what did Plato mean by essence, (Greek), which is the intermediate
117 Intro|          goes on to speak of the Essence which is compounded out
118 Intro|         same, the other, and the essence (compare the three principles
119 Intro|         same, the other, and the essence, is diffused from the centre
120 Intro|       touching anything that has essence, whether dispersed in parts
121 Text |         and intermediate kind of essence, partaking of the nature
122 Text |         same, the other, and the essence, and mingled them into one
123 Text |        had mingled them with the essence and out of three made one,
124 Text |         same, the other, and the essence. And he proceeded to divide
125 Text |          of the other and of the essence, these three, and is divided
126 Text |      touching anything which has essence, whether dispersed in parts
127 Text |          transfer to the eternal essence; for we say that he ‘was,’
128 Text |          we call an intelligible essence nothing at all, and only