The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling
dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a
philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary
exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a
systematic and coherent, if incomplete, account of a special theory
about, and special explanation of, human desire and action.
Furthermore, it shows how that theory and explanation are
fundamental to a whole range of other Platonic dialogues and indeed
to the understanding of the corpus as a whole. Part One offers an
analysis of, or running commentary on, the dialogue. In Part Two
Professors Penner and Rowe examine the philosophical and
methodological implications of the argument uncovered by the
analysis. The whole is rounded off by an epilogue of the relation
between the Lysis and some other Platonic (and Aristotelian) texts.
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