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Lysis is one of the
socratic dialogues written by
Plato and discusses the nature of
friendship.
The main characters are
Socrates, the boys Lysis and
Menexenus who are friends, as well as
Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis.
Socrates proposes several possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship: Friendship between like and like; friendship between unlike and unlike; friendship between neither-good-nor-bad and good in the presence of evil.
In the end, Socrates discards all these ideas as wrong. While no definite conclusion is reached, it's suggested that the common pursuit of the "good and beautiful" (
kalos kagathos) is the true motivation for friendship.
French aristocrat
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, who had fled
Paris in the early
1900s after a
homosexual scandal, named the house he built on
Capri Villa Lysis after the title of this dialogue.
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