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	Philebus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philebus is among the last of the late Socratic dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
		Socrates is the primary speaker in Philebus, unlike in the other late dialogues.
		The dialogue's central question concerns the relative value of pleasure and understanding, and produces a model for thinking about how complex strucutures are developed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philebus (139 words)

	Plato - PHILEBUS - 360 BC - In Five Parts - Part One - Translated by Benjamin Jowett - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
		But the, infinity of kinds and the infinity of individuals which there is in each of them, when not classified, creates in every one of us a state of infinite ignorance; and he who never looks for number in anything, will not himself be looked for in the number of famous men.
		Philebus is right in asking that question of us, Protarchus.
		Perhaps, Philebus you may be right in saying so of my "mind"; but of the true, which is also the divine mind, far otherwise.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /plato_philebus01.htm (3275 words)

	Plato, Philebus ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Philebus, who appears to be the teacher (16 B, 36 D), or elder friend, and perhaps the lover (53 D), of Protarchus, takes no further part in the discussion beyond asserting in the strongest manner his adherence, under all circumstances, to the cause of pleasure.
		Philebus affirmed pleasure to be the good, and assumed them to be one nature; I affirmed that they were two natures, and declared that knowledge was more akin to the good than pleasure.
		There are several passages in the Philebus which are very characteristic of Plato, and which we shall do well to consider not only in their connexion, but apart from their connexion as inspired sayings or oracles which receive their full interpretation only from the history of philosophy in later ages.
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	The Internet Classics Archive \| Philebus by Plato
		The reverse of unimportant, my boys, as Philebus calls you, and there neither is nor ever will be a better than my own favourite way, which has nevertheless already often deserted me and left me helpless in the hour of need.
		For when Philebus said that pleasure and delight and enjoyment and the like were the chief good, you answered-No, not those, but another class of goods; and we are constantly reminding ourselves of what you said, and very properly, in order that we may not forget to examine and compare the two.
		This is evidently comprehended in the third or mixed class; which is not composed of any two particular ingredients, but of all the elements of infinity, bound down by the finite, and may therefore be truly said to comprehend the conqueror life.
	classics.mit.edu /Plato/philebus.html (8159 words)

	Philebus
		Observe, Protarchus, the nature of the position which you are now going to take from Philebus, and what the other position is which I maintain, and which, if you do not approve of it, is to be controverted by you.
		But the, infinity of kinds and the infinity of individuals which there is in each of them, when not classified, creates in every one of us a state of infinite ignorance ; and he who never looks for number in anything, will not himself be looked for in the number of famous men.
		For when Philebus said that pleasure and delight and enjoyment and the like were the chief good, you answered — No, not those, but another class of goods ; and we are constantly reminding ourselves of what you said, and very properly, in order that we may not forget to examine and compare the two.
	www.ac-nice.fr /philo/textes/Plato-Works/27-Philebus.htm (6622 words)

	Philebus - Introduction and Analysis
		The Socrates of the Philebus is devoid of any touch of Socratic irony, though here, as in the Phaedrus, he twice attributes the flow of his ideas to a sudden inspiration.
		Philebus, who has withdrawn from the argument, is several times brought back again, that he may support pleasure, of which he remains to the end the uncompromising advocate.
		On the other hand, the youthful group of listeners by whom he is surrounded, 'Philebus' boys' as they are termed, whose presence is several times intimated, are described as all of them at last convinced by the arguments of Socrates.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/phil/ancientmedievalorientalphilosophy/Philebus/Chap1.html (6028 words)

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		I did not introduce the argument, O Protarchus, with any personal reference to Philebus, but because, without the consideration of these and similar pleasures, we shall not be able to determine the point at issue.
		Let us say that the stable and pure and true and unalloyed has to do with the things which are eternal and unchangeable and unmixed, or if not, at any rate what is most akin to them has; and that all other things are to be placed in a second or inferior class.
		Quite impossible; and now you and Philebus must tell me whether anything is still wanting in the mixture, for to my way of thinking the argument is now completed, and may be compared to an incorporeal law, which is going to hold fair rule over a living body.
	eserver.org /philosophy/plato/philebus.txt (16497 words)

	Reflective Summary #1
		Philebus focuses on the way in which both pleasure and knowledge lead to happiness.
		Philebus is of course not the only dialogue in which what is meant by ‘good’ is debated.
		Philebus appears to be to show that a balanced or moderate life of self-restraint is the best path to happiness and the good, and that knowledge is more closely akin to this lifestyle than is the pursuit of pleasure.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~hitchckd/Bell1.htm (944 words)

	Philebus (Ethics, and God's Existence too)
		Philebus: I say; and shall always say, that pleasure is easily the conqueror; but you must decide for yourself, Protarchus.
		Philebus: Yes, that is a question which Protarchus and I have been long asking.
		Philebus: They belong to the class which admits of more, Socrates; for pleasure would not be perfectly good if she were not infinite in quantity and degree.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~mert2049/philosophy/plato-philebus.shtml (14144 words)

	Plato, Dialogues, vol. 4 - Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Their transcendental existence is not asserted, and is therefore implicitly denied in the Philebus; different forms are ascribed to them in the Republic, and they are mentioned in the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus, and the Laws, much as Universals would be spoken of in modern books.
		In the earlier dialogues the Socratic conception of universals is illustrated by his genius; in the Phaedrus the nature of division is explained; in the Republic the law of contradiction and the unity of knowledge are asserted; in the later dialogues he is constantly engaged both with the theory and practice of classification.
		These were the ‘new weapons,’ as he terms them in the Philebus, which he was preparing for the use of some who, in after ages, would be found ready enough to disown their obligations to the great master, or rather, perhaps, would be incapable of understanding them.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Philebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Soc.: Philebus holds that what is good for all creatures is to enjoy themselves, to be pleased and delighted, and whatever else goes together with that kind of thing.
		At this point, a moment of discontinuity arises insofar as Protarchus suggests that he, unlike Philebus, is not simply an unreformable hedonist: “But now you have handed over the argument to us, Philebus, you can no longer control the agreements we make with Socrates nor our disagreements”.
		Thus Philebus is a not only a dialogical and poetic reinvestigation of the ethical implications of enjoyment and intelligibility.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13439 (666 words)

	Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lewis Campbell was the first to make exhaustive use of stylometry to prove objectively that the Critias, Timaeus, Laws, Philebus, Sophist, and Statesman were all clustered together as a group, while the Parmenides, Phaedrus, Republic, and Theaetetus belong to a separate group, which must be earlier (given Aristotle's statement in his Politics
		An apparently new method for doing dialectic known as "collection and division" is also featured, most notably in the Sophist and Statesman, explicitly for the first time in the Phaedrus, and possibly in the Philebus.
		A basic description of collection and division would go as follows: interlocutors attempt to discern the similarities and differences among things in order to get clear idea about what they in fact are.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato (5567 words)

	Cokesbury.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		In "The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogues, the "Philebus.
		Traditionally the "Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body.
		Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrates vindicates the life of the mind over against the life of pleasure not by separating the two and advocating a strict asceticism, but by mixing pleasure and pain with mind in such a way that the philosophic life emerges as the only possible human life.
	www.cokesbury.com /freesamples/?pid=0226042391 (153 words)

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		PHILEBUS by Plato 360 BC PHILEBUS by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: * SOCRATES; * PROTARCHUS; * PHILEBUS.
		For when Philebus said that pleasure and delight and enjoyment and the like were the chief good, you answered- No, not those, but another class of goods; and we are constantly reminding ourselves of what you said, and very properly, in order that we may not forget to examine and compare the two.
		[Soc.] Quite impossible; and now you and Philebus must tell me whether anything is still wanting in the mixture, for to my way of thinking the argument is now completed, and may be compared to an incorporeal law, which is going to hold fair rule over a living body.
	www.filosofiske-essays.dk /klassikere/philebus.txt (17255 words)

	Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
		Observe, then, Protarchus, what the doctrine is which you are now to accept from Philebus, and what our doctrine is, against which you are to argue, if you do not agree with it.
		Very well: Philebus says that to all living beings enjoyment and pleasure and gaiety and whatever accords with that sort of thing are a good; whereas our contention is that not these, but wisdom and thought and memory and their kindred, right opinion and true reasonings,
		I did not introduce this question on Philebus' account; but unless we consider these pleasures and those that follow in their train, Protarchus, we can probably never settle the point at issue.
	www.hermes-press.com /Perennial_Tradition/philebus2a.htm (12566 words)

	Philebus
		V. Thus far we have only attained to the vestibule or ante-chamber of the good; for there is a good exceeding knowledge, exceeding essence, which, like Glaucon in the Republic, we find a difficulty in apprehending.
		Philebus, who appears to be the teacher, or elder friend, and perhaps the lover, of Protarchus, takes no further part in the discussion beyond asserting in the strongest manner his adherence, under all circumstances, to the cause of pleasure.
		In the Philebus, Plato, although he regards the enemies of pleasure with complacency, still further modifies the transcendentalism of the Phaedo.
	www.worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/philb.htm (19293 words)

	Plato's Philebus
		Two passages in the Philebus are relevant to the subject herein considered: 16c-17a, and 23c-31b.
		Three solutions, which are not mutually exclusive, are suggested in the dialogues: (1) that the many participate imperfectly in the perfect nature of their idea; (2) that the many are made in imitation of the One; and (3) that the many are composed of a mixture of the Limit (Idea) with the Unlimited (matter).
		On the other hand, there are reasons for hesitating in identifying the limit of the Philebus with the forms, and the unlimited with unformed matter or space.
	home.insightbb.com /~cddilling/Plato/PlatosPhilebus.htm (3145 words)

	Welcome to Philebus
		Philebus himself is not terribly remarkable; he's another of Socrates' many foils that make their appearances in Plato's dialogs.
		The Philebus itself is a lengthy defense of the superiority of intellectual activity over physical pleasure.
		What drew me to it, however, was not so much its main theme, but Plato's recurring, and highly suggestive, allusions to music, the infinite, and the problem of the one and the many, three subjects about which I am deeply passionate (i.e., I'll argue about them loudly if not effectively).
	philebus.tamu.edu (209 words)

	Plato Encyclopedia Article @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
		Only in the Lesser Hippias, with the general resurgence of interest in classical civilization, did knowledge of Plato's philosophy become widespread again in the West.
		The ISBN 0-19-875206-7 and the Philebus are considered the centrepieces of Plato's middle period.
		The Meno presents a series of criticisms of the theory of Forms which are widely taken to indicate Plato's abandonment of the doctrine.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Plato (6183 words)

	Philebus - Plato
		PHILEBUS by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
		The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has begun to alter, and the dramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical.
		We may observe an attempt at artificial ornament, and far-fetched modes of expression; also clamorous demands on the part of his companions, that Socrates shall answer his own questions, as well as other defects of
	www.classicsarchive.com /P/books/Philebus_-_Plato (199 words)

	Plato, Philebus
		Philebus represents a person who has already formed an unyielding opinion and is unwilling to be swayed by or consider a dialectical search for truth.
		P(hilebus): Whatever is pleasure must be pleasure, though it refers to many different things.
		Wise men say that what Philebus and his school call pleasures are all merely refuges from pain.
	www.hermes-press.com /Perennial_Tradition/plato_philebus_notes.htm (2011 words)

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