Plato, Philebus, section 34e

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[34e] and the like were desires?

Protarchus
They are, decidedly.

Socrates
What sort of identity have we in view when we call these, which are so different, by one name?

Protarchus
By Zeus, Socrates, that question may not be easy to answer, yet it must be answered.

Socrates
Let us, then, begin again at that point with the same examples.

Protarchus
At what point?

Socrates
We say of a thing on any particular occasion, “itÕs thirsty,” do we not?

Protarchus
Of course.

Socrates
And that means being empty?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And is thirst, then, a desire?

Protarchus
Yes, of drink.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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