Charmides
    Part
  1 PreF |                opposed to his own. The aim of the Introductions in
  2 Intro|              definitions have a higher aim, which is to introduce the


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|                determining the precise aim of the author. Plato wrote
  4 Intro|         inclines to him, had any other aim than that of personifying,
  5 Text |              mistaking of the mark, or aim, or proposal, or object.~


Euthydemus
    Part
  6 Text |         whether a lover or not, if his aim is to get wisdom. Do you
  7 Text |            philosopher-politicians who aim at both fall short of both


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  8 Intro|                only attain this higher aim of ambition by the assistance
  9 Intro|          relations.’ And what is their aim? ‘The better preservation
 10 Intro|              of the state, we ought to aim at justice and temperance,
 11 Intro|              Platonic composition. The aim is more directly ethical
 12 Text |            into action, would you only aim at being the best pilot
 13 Text |             That would certainly be my aim.~SOCRATES: Verily, then,
 14 Text |             good counsel, of which the aim is the preservation of the
 15 Text |        SOCRATES: True. And what is the aim of that other good counsel
 16 Text |             you speak?~ALCIBIADES: The aim is the better order and
 17 Text |              Alcibiades, should be the aim either of individuals or


Gorgias
    Part
 18 Intro|              worlds; he would have men aim at disproportion and excess.
 19 Intro|             are condemned because they aim at pleasure only, as in
 20 Text |               value where truth is the aim; a man may often be sworn
 21 Text |              were some processes which aim only at pleasure, and know
 22 Text |               bad, and having no other aim but to afford gratification,
 23 Text |                aspirations? Is all her aim and desire only to give
 24 Text |                appear to you always to aim at what is best, and do
 25 Text |               takes away? Will not his aim be to implant justice in
 26 Text |                appears to me to be the aim which a man ought to have,
 27 Text |               them, you have any other aim but the improvement of the


Laws
    Book
 28 1    |              think, Stranger, that the aim of our institutions is easily
 29 1    |      legislator.~Athenian. And yet the aim of all the laws which he
 30 1    |               if war is not the entire aim and object of our own institutions,
 31 1    |               saying that this was the aim of the giver of the law,
 32 1    |             amusements, to their final aim in life. The most important
 33 3    |        descendants desired. What other aim would they have had?~Megillus.
 34 3    |               one of them only was the aim of legislation; whereas
 35 3    |                palpable that the chief aim of the kings of that time
 36 3    |                temperance is to be the aim, or wisdom is to be the
 37 3    |                 or wisdom is to be the aim, or friendship is to be
 38 3    |                friendship is to be the aim, that all these aims are
 39 3    |         opinion, the legislator should aim.~Athenian. Hear me, then:
 40 4    |               results on a State whose aim is the attainment of just
 41 4    |              mark at which we ought to aim. But what weapons shall
 42 4    |                this will surely be the aim of the legislator in all
 43 5    |             want?” and “Do I attain my aim, or do I miss the mark?”
 44 6    |           states, at which we ought to aim, and according to this rule
 45 6    |               Athenian. And is not the aim of the legislator similar?
 46 6    |               women, old and young—the aim of all should always be
 47 6    |               other institutions which aim at goods, as they are termed,
 48 7    |             and makes them a principal aim, he will do much for the
 49 7    |                are serious, others who aim only at raising a laugh—
 50 8    |                war, or any other noble aim, but makes the orderly and
 51 11   |             like a good archer, should aim at the right measure of
 52 12   |               about such matters:—What aim would the general of an
 53 12   |            general of an army, or what aim would a physician propose
 54 12   |         Athenian. Does not the general aim at victory and superiority
 55 12   |           physician and his assistants aim at producing health in the
 56 12   |           proves to be ignorant of the aim to which the statesman should
 57 12   |              he does not even know the aim?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian.
 58 12   |          saying, will tell what is the aim of the state, and will inform
 59 12   |                able to tell his single aim in life, but you, the superior,
 60 12   |             say distinctly what is the aim of mind political, in return


Menexenus
    Part
 61 Text |             then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition
 62 Text |              of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this
 63 Text |             constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible,


Parmenides
    Part
 64 Intro|        negative element in them is the aim of Plato in the Sophist.
 65 Intro|                and Parmenides seems to aim at proving the existence
 66 Intro|              view is correct, the real aim of the hypotheses of Parmenides


Phaedo
    Part
 67 Text |               that all sensible things aim at an absolute equality


Phaedrus
    Part
 68 Intro|          knowledge of it, and that the aim of the good man should not
 69 Intro|            word, took the place of the aim or subject of the book.


Philebus
    Part
 70 Intro|               of happiness, and is the aim of the noblest, as well
 71 Intro|               parties alike profess to aim at this, which though often
 72 Text |          beings, at which all ought to aim, and moreover that it is


Protagoras
    Part
 73 Intro|                 and certainly does not aim at any unity which is inconsistent
 74 Intro|          intellectual superiority.~The aim of Socrates, and of the
 75 Text |              And do not you, Socrates, aim at this precise and extreme
 76 Text |              of meaning, with unerring aim; and the person with whom


The Republic
    Book
 77 1    |             provide? ~Yes, that is the aim of art. ~And the interest
 78 2    |      Adeimantus thought that he should aim at producing food only and
 79 3    |              harmonies their perpetual aim? ~They must. ~And surely
 80 4    |          happiest of men; but that our aim in founding the State was
 81 5    |        discretion of the rulers, whose aim will be to preserve the
 82 5    |             what ought to be the chief aim of the legislator in making
 83 7    |            because they have no single aim of duty which is the rule
 84 7    |                legislator, who did not aim at making any one class
 85 7    |           neither, and that your chief aim in carrying on the argument
 86 9    | discountenanced the unnecessary, which aim only at amusement and ornament? ~
 87 10   |                have no true or healthy aim. ~Exactly. ~The imitative


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 88 Text |             ideals at which men should aim, advising him to carry them
 89 Text |            effect on Dionysios, as his aim was that it should, he had
 90 Text |                another; so long as you aim at injuring one another,


The Sophist
    Part
 91 Intro|               to their resolution. The aim of the dialogue is to show
 92 Intro|             conferred by them. For her aim is knowledge; she wants
 93 Text |            should understand to be her aim.~THEAETETUS: Yes, I understand;
 94 Text |                 continually miss their aim and glance aside, shall
 95 Text |                 Is not this always the aim of imitation?~STRANGER:


The Statesman
    Part
 96 Intro|             audience has been his only aim in some of his digressions.
 97 Intro|               we must know what is the aim of discourse: and our discourse
 98 Text |                amusement is their sole aim.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That again
 99 Text |                make family their chief aim, and to indicate their error.~


The Symposium
    Part
100 Text |                have indeed an elevated aim if what you say is true,


Theaetetus
    Part
101 Intro|          illustrated a new method, his aim has been sufficiently accomplished.~
102 Intro|          modern psychology, seeming to aim at constructing anew the
103 Intro|          familiar to us all. It should aim at no more than every reflecting
104 Text |              are many or few; his only aim is to attain the truth.
105 Text |               good or expedient is the aim of legislation, and as far
106 Text |             legislation have any other aim?~THEODORUS: Certainly not.~
107 Text |              not.~SOCRATES: But is the aim attained always? do not
108 Text |             SOCRATES: But the original aim of our discussion was to
109 Text |               another; and missing the aim of his thoughts, he may