Lysis (Friendship) By Plato Dramatized Audiobook - Audiobooks Dimension
Translation by Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893)
Text - a pdf file of the dialogue. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8uC-hIAl6Dl2qmNZFXAHKtk8bysdVq/view?usp=drive_link
The dialogue starts at about 19:00 on the audio file.
Some thoughts on friendship
Please see comments in the following file relating to the dialogue.
A PDF file with highlights and brief comments can be found below:
Some additional resources
Perseus Digital Library text on Lysis: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0176%3Atext%3DLysis
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lysis, by Plato on the internet.
Wikipedia: Lysis (dialogue)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship
Some questions relating to friendship
In the Benjamin Jowett translation, there are some questions at the end of the Introduction section. It is on the end of page 4 of the PDF file above. We can discuss some of those questions.
In addition, we may ask the following:
- What are the different type of friendships?
- Why do people want to have friends?
- What are the characteristics or personalities that enable one to have more friends?
- Why do some people have a few good and close friends, some have many acquaintances, and some people are lonely?
- Is friendship between humans only? Could there be friendship between: a) human and pet/animal, b) animal and animal, c) human and subject (e.g. philosophy, mathematics, science), d) human and activities (e.g. work, sports, art)?
- Philosophy means "love of wisdom". Is that one of the most important type of friendship?
- What is friendship? (Please see for information the Wikipedia page on friendship.)
- What are the main themes explored in Lysis and what are some questions related to those themes? (See Wikipedia page on Lysis.)
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