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Lysis (/ ˈ l aɪ s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Λύσις, genitive case Λύσιδος, showing the stem Λύσιδ-, from which the infrequent translation Lysides), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (), often translated as friendship, while the word's original content was of a much larger and more intimate bond. [1]
In philosophy, Plato's epistemology is a theory of knowledge developed by the Greek philosopher Plato and his followers. Platonic epistemology holds that knowledge of Platonic Ideas is innate, so that learning is the development of ideas buried deep in the soul, often under the midwife-like guidance of an interrogator.
The concept posits the claim that learning involves the act of rediscovering knowledge from within oneself. This stands in contrast to the opposing doctrine known as empiricism, which posits that all knowledge is derived from experience and sensory perception. Plato develops the theory of anamnesis in his Socratic dialogues: Meno, Phaedo, and ...
16. “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” 17. “Time is the moving image of reality.” 18. “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
Here is a compiled list of quotes about friends and friendship: 50 friendship quotes "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." – Winnie the Pooh
“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert “Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky ...
In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, justice and friendship have the same subject and object; therefore they increase correspondingly (1159ab25-26, 1160a7-8). [18] With respect to the third definition, Plato is the first to reject that to be just is to harm enemies and benefit friends.
Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion" (82). [5] This is inaccurate because, "for Gorgias the sophist, all 'knowledge' is opinion. There can be no rational or irrational arguments because all human beliefs and communicative situations are relative to a kairotic moment" (83).