《论友谊》经典中外文学教育丛书.pdfVIP

柏拉图作品集·论友谊 ［古希腊］柏拉图 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 柏拉图作品集·论友谊 ［古希腊］柏拉图 * 辽宁电子图书有限责任公司 责任编辑：郝刚 ※ 印张 12 千字 2002 年 12月第 1 版 2002年 12 月第 1 次 印刷 印数 :__ ISBN L-YY-0160/B502.2 定价 2 元 Lysis by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, What is Friendship? anymore 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 middleaged; in the Lysis he is advanced in years. The Dialogue consists of two scenes or conversations which seem to have no relation to each other. The first is a conversation between Socrates and Lysis, who, like Charmides, is an Athenian youth of noble descent and of great beauty, goodness, and intelligence: this is carried on in the absence of Menexenus, who is called away to take part in a sacrifice. Socrates asks Lysis whether his father and mother do not love him very much? To be sure they do. Then of course they allow him to do exactly as he likes. Of course not: the very slav