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    Lysis
    Lysis
    Lysis
    Audiobook51 minutes

    Lysis

    Written by Plato

    Narrated by Peter Coates

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    Lysis  is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature  often translated as friendship, while the word's original content was of a much larger and more intimate bond. 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. Socrates proposes four possible notions regarding the true nature of loving friendship as:
    Friendship between people who are similar, interpreted by Socrates as friendship between good men.
    Friendship between men who are dissimilar.
    Friendship between men who are neither good nor bad and good men.
    Gradually emerging: friendship between those who are relatives (οἰκεῖοι "not kindred") by the nature of their souls.
    Of all those options, Socrates thinks that the only logical possibility is the friendship between men who are good and men who are neither good nor bad.
    In the end, Socrates seems to discard all these ideas as wrong, although his para-logical refutations have strong hints of irony about them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStrelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
    Release dateMay 21, 2024
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    Plato

    Plato (aprox. 424-327 BC), a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, is commonly regarded as the centermost figure of Western philosophy. During the Classical period of Ancient Greece he was based in Athens where he founded his Academy and created the Platonist school of thought. His works are among the most influential in Western history, commanding interest and challenging readers of every era and background since they were composed.

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