Cratylus
    Part
  1 Text |   ophelimon, kerdaleon, and their opposites.~SOCRATES: The meaning of
  2 Text |          what do you say of their opposites?~SOCRATES: Of such as are


Euthydemus
    Part
  3 Intro|        Hegelian reconciliation of opposites have been ‘most gracious
  4 Text |          greater evils than their opposites, inasmuch as they are more


Euthyphro
    Part
  5 Text |       these two being the extreme opposites of one another. Was not
  6 Text |      piety or holiness, and their opposites.~EUTHYPHRO: Piety or holiness,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  7 Text |           courage are the extreme opposites of death and cowardice?~
  8 Text |         desire to have, and their opposites you would least desire?~


Gorgias
    Part
  9 Intro|    statements by showing that two opposites cannot coexist, but must
 10 Intro|      poetry, are so many pairs of opposites, which in Plato easily pass
 11 Text |       would call goods, and their opposites evils?~POLUS: I should.~
 12 Text |          and happiness, and their opposites, evil and misery, in a similar
 13 Text |   excellence, are good, and their opposites evil?~CALLICLES: Certainly.~


Laws
    Book
 14 1    |          also to be trained among opposites.~Cleinias. That is probably
 15 5    |            any more than to their opposites; but the mean states of
 16 5    |          and equality, and in the opposites of these when regarded as
 17 5    |        wish for that in which the opposites exceed; nor, again, do we
 18 5    |         will and desire and their opposites, and making of them a law,
 19 7    |     without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites,
 20 7    |          opposites at all without opposites, if a man is really to have
 21 10   |          accidental admixtures of opposites which have been formed by
 22 10   |          unjust, and of all other opposites, if we suppose her to be
 23 10   |          Yes.~Athenian. And their opposites, therefore, would fall under
 24 10   |  unimportant things than of their opposites.~Cleinias. Far more.~Athenian.
 25 10   |         themselves and love their opposites, the prelude of our laws


Lysis
    Part
 26 Text |         greatest friendship is of opposites?~Exactly.~Yes, Menexenus;


Parmenides
    Part
 27 Intro|       other, like and unlike, are opposites: and since in virtue of
 28 Intro|      degree unlike. And all other opposites might without difficulty
 29 Intro|   participation in one; or of two opposites, and this would be a participation
 30 Intro|    conversely: (5) The analogy of opposites is misused by him; he argues
 31 Intro|      sometimes as alternatives or opposites: (8) There are no degrees
 32 Intro|         same,’ ‘whole,’ and their opposites, have slightly different
 33 Text |        all things partake of both opposites, and be both like and unlike,
 34 Text |           and the absolute other, opposites to one another?~Of course.~
 35 Text |           opposite ways.~Yes.~And opposites are the most unlike of things.~
 36 Text |        both they would partake of opposites which would be two things,


Phaedo
    Part
 37 Intro|    doctrine of the alternation of opposites.) ‘Aesop would have represented
 38 Intro| philosophical assumption that all opposites—e.g. less, greater; weaker,
 39 Intro|           you not only that ideal opposites exclude one another, but
 40 Intro|         one another, but also the opposites in us. I, for example, having
 41 Intro|       with the old assertion that opposites generated opposites. But
 42 Intro|          that opposites generated opposites. But that, replies Socrates,
 43 Intro|           the mutual exclusion of opposites is not only true of the
 44 Intro|           is not only true of the opposites themselves, but of things
 45 Intro|           that the alternation of opposites is not the same as the generation
 46 Intro|        which he draws between the opposites and the things which have
 47 Intro|         the things which have the opposites, still individuals fall
 48 Intro|    argument of the alternation of opposites is replaced by this. And
 49 Intro|       Heracleitean alternation of opposites, and proceeding to the Pythagorean
 50 Text |         not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
 51 Text |  opposites generated out of their opposites? I mean such things as good
 52 Text |       there are innumerable other opposites which are generated out
 53 Text |        which are generated out of opposites. And I want to show that
 54 Text |          want to show that in all opposites there is of necessity a
 55 Text |           And is this true of all opposites? and are we convinced that
 56 Text |         them are generated out of opposites?~Yes.~And in this universal
 57 Text |          necessarily holds of all opposites, even though not always
 58 Text |            And these, if they are opposites, are generated the one from
 59 Text |           one of the two pairs of opposites which I have mentioned to
 60 Text |     return of elements into their opposites, then you know that all
 61 Text |        less the greater, and that opposites were simply generated from
 62 Text |        were simply generated from opposites; but now this principle
 63 Text |          then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now
 64 Text |       speaking of things in which opposites are inherent and which are
 65 Text |           them, but now about the opposites which are inherent in them
 66 Text |         them; and these essential opposites will never, as we maintain,
 67 Text |     aiming:—not only do essential opposites exclude one another, but
 68 Text |       themselves opposed, contain opposites; these, I say, likewise
 69 Text |       which repel the approach of opposites.~Very true, he said.~Suppose,
 70 Text |     opposed, and yet do not admit opposites—as, in the instance given,
 71 Text |         conclusion, that not only opposites will not receive opposites,
 72 Text |        opposites will not receive opposites, but also that nothing which


Philebus
    Part
 73 Intro|          the Pythagorean table of opposites) in the same manner as contemporary
 74 Intro|       fact of the co-existence of opposites was a sufficient answer
 75 Intro|          hence the coexistence of opposites in the unity of the idea
 76 Intro|     seriousness with the unity of opposites is regarded from the higher
 77 Text |         unity of the most extreme opposites. And I suspect that we shall
 78 Text |      likeness, sameness, or their opposites, none of us will be of the
 79 Text |          or less, but admit their opposites, that is to say, first of
 80 Text |          to mean that the various opposites, when you mingle with them


Protagoras
    Part
 81 Text |        soft, and the most extreme opposites have some qualities in common;
 82 Text |         opposite ways was done by opposites?~Yes.~And that which was
 83 Text |          opposite ways is done by opposites?~Yes.~And one thing is done
 84 Text |       Certainly.~And therefore by opposites:—then folly is the opposite
 85 Text |          one, has clearly the two opposites—wisdom and temperance? Is


The Republic
    Book
 86 1    |    JUSTICE, MODERATION, AND THEIR OPPOSITES~Persons of the Dialogue~
 87 4    |        repulsion, are all of them opposites, whether they are regarded
 88 4    |            Yes, he said, they are opposites. ~Well, I said, and hunger


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 89 Text |           And there cannot be two opposites to one thing?~ALCIBIADES:


The Sophist
    Part
 90 Intro|    consider, such as the unity of opposites, the conception of the ideas
 91 Intro|           dialectic.~The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient
 92 Intro|           unity of differences or opposites is the beginning of the
 93 Intro|        his system on the unity of opposites, although in the Parmenides
 94 Intro|       When this reconciliation of opposites is finally completed in
 95 Intro|         mankind under the form of opposites. Most of us live in the
 96 Intro|        thought.~(a) If we ask how opposites can coexist, we are told
 97 Intro|      philosophy under the form of opposites. The first abstraction is
 98 Intro|     nothing like this progress of opposites in Plato, who in the Symposium
 99 Intro|           to us.~The influence of opposites is felt in practical life.
100 Intro|       these forms is the unity of opposites. Abstractions have a great
101 Intro|           another.~This method of opposites has supplied new instruments
102 Intro|          by degrees as well as by opposites. The word ‘continuity’ suggests
103 Intro|           of quantity. Again, the opposites themselves may vary from
104 Intro|    described as an alternation of opposites or figured to the mind by
105 Intro|           receive his doctrine of opposites as the last word of philosophy,
106 Text |           by his reciprocation of opposites, the many-headed Sophist
107 Text |          other virtues, and their opposites exist, as well as a soul


The Statesman
    Part
108 Intro|     tyranny—which are the extreme opposites of one another, although
109 Intro|        further steps the union of opposites is to be effected.~In the
110 Text |     breadth, swiftness with their opposites; and to have another part
111 Text |           just and good and their opposites, which is true and confirmed


The Symposium
    Part
112 Intro|          is the reconciliation of opposites; and this is what Heracleitus
113 Intro|          he spoke of a harmony of opposites: but in strictness he should
114 Intro|          a harmony which succeeds opposites, for an agreement of disagreements
115 Intro|           the Pythagorean list of opposites male and female were ranged
116 Intro|      conception of the harmony of opposites he explains in a new way
117 Text |        the same reconciliation of opposites; and I suppose that this


Timaeus
    Part
118 Intro|         of sense to be made up of opposites or to be in a perpetual
119 Intro|    primeval chaos. These pairs of opposites are so many aspects of the