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Mari Berbincang Bersama Plato: Persahabatan (Lysis) (2009)

by Plato(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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review 1: I don’t know what the point of this dialogue is. To guess a bit, and consistent with other Platonic dialogues, Socrates’ intention is to instruct Hippothales on how to court his beloved Lysis. Socrates advises that Lysis must be humbled, taught that he doesn’t know that much, and thereby to inspire a hunger to learn and to develop an admiration for his teacher (the older lover’s role is to instruct the younger beloved) in that way. That type of learning, though, is only a step on the way to a higher state of knowing. Socrates suggests that friendship for its own sake is its highest form, and hints that this is analogous to the seeking of the Good for its own sake, which is the highest form of knowledge. If this is its point, it took a lot of dialogue to get t... morehere.
review 2: In this dialogue, Plato uses the voice of Socrates once again. Here the discussion on " friendship." Socrates, through question and answer ("Socratic method") tries to demonstrate that we know what friendship is because we remember having once beheld "friendship" in its true Form. This is typical of Plato's dialogues. There is q and a to show that we know what something is (love, justice, friendship and the like) because we remember it. The q and a format is used to help us "remember" the Form we beheld in our bodiless state. less

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