Jowett: cause

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aition

cause, the idea of the; cause and effect, Euthyph. 10; Phil. 26, 27; ’the tie of the cause,’ Meno 98 A; cause and condition distinguished, Phaedo   99; the good denied by some to be a cause, ibid.; a cause necessary to creation, Tim. 28 A; the power of the cause, Phil. 30:—God the best of causes, Tim. 29 A :—final causes, Phaedo 97,98 ; argument from, applied to justice, Rep.   1. 352 ; second causes, Tim. 46 (cp. 76 E); two kinds of causes, ib. 68 E; creative causes, Phil. 27; the causes of things, ought to be enquired into by men, Laws 7. 821 A; first causes, ib. 10. . 891 E :—causes of crimes, Rep. 8. 552 D ; 9. 575 A; Laws 8. 831 E, 832 D; 9. 863, 870.