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Friendship and Community in Plato's Lysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2006

Mary P. Nichols
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Abstract

Plato's Lysis addresses the problem of Plato's Republic—the tension between individual and communal good—by exploring the question of what or who is the friend. Friends, I argue, experience another as their own, and themselves as not wholly their own. Unlike the guardians of Plato's Republic, friends say both mine and not mine of one another. Grounded in both self-awareness and belonging, friendship serves as a model for philosophy, and demonstrates the possibility of associations that support our complex identity as human beings and citizens.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 1 - 19
Copyright
2006 University of Notre Dame

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