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Plato's Dialogues: Lysis

Plato's Dialogues: Lysis

Jowett, Benjamin
Plato

Paperback

Series: Plato's Dialogues

Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1721866280
ISBN13: 9781721866281
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2018
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.08 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Plato's Dialogues: Lysis by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Lysis is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of friendship. It is generally classified as an early dialogue. The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis and therefore, after the initial conversation, hides himself behind the surrounding listeners. No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, 'What is Friendship?' any more than in the Charmides to the question, 'What is Temperance?' There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they are alike rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middle-aged; in the Lysis he is advanced in years.

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