• 导读
  • Socrates proposes four possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship:

    1.Friendship between people who are similar, interpreted by Socrates as friendship between good men.

    2.Friendship between men who are dissimilar.

    3.Friendship between men who are neither good nor bad and good men.

    4.Gradually emerging: friendship between those who are relatives ( "not kindred") by the nature of their souls.

  • 内容简介
  • 《吕西斯篇》是一篇短小而重要的对话录,讨论的主题是“友爱”,与《会饮篇》、《斐德罗篇》对爱的讨论密切相关。Socrates在与Lysis和Menexenus的谈论中,先后将友爱界定为“朋友彼此相爱”、“不善不恶者因为恶的出现而对善的友爱”,层层批驳后导致最终将友爱定义为“缺乏者对绝对的美善的渴望,而那种绝对美善本来就是属于我们的”这样一种理想的观念。

    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.

  • 作者简介
  • 柏拉图(约公元前427年-前352年)是著名的古希腊哲学家,雅典人,他的著作大多以对话录形式纪录,并创办了著名的学院。柏拉图是苏格拉底的学生,也是亚里士多德的老师,他们三人被广泛认为是西方哲学的奠基者,史称“西方三圣贤”。

    Plato was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece. He is considered an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

  • 目录
    • INTRODUCTION.
    • SOME QUESTIONS RELATING TO FRIENDSHIP.
    • PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Menexenus, Hippothales, Lysis, Ctesippus.