Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics and Plato: Lysis

by Bankim Chandra Pandey

Lysis (dialogue) of Plato and Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle both were the best work in their field. First is the work based on the nature of friendships while the second works explore the possibility of ethical culture in different situation of life. Lysis the dialogue, considered as the one of the earliest dialogue of Plato which discuss the nature of friendship. The main characters are Socrates, the boy named Lysis, Menexenus, Hippothlaes and Citesippus. In Lysis Socrates proposes four possible options for friendship, they are Friendship between two good men (similar in nature), Friendship between men who are dissimilar in nature, Friendship between men who are neither good nor bad men and good men and last is the friendship emerging between the relatives by the nature of their souls. Of these valid options, Socrates thinks that most logical is the friendship between men who are good and men who are neither good nor bad. In the end Socrates interpreted all ideas and discard them, so the text show high amounts of irony within the interpretation. Now if we explore the themes and ideas of Nicomachean ethics then it revolves around the topics of virtue, happiness, moral education, doctrine of the mean, unity of virtues, the importance of friendship and the life of contemplation. Themes and ideas of Lysis revolve around love, friendship, likeness, identity, desire, usefulness, choice of good,evil and neutral.

5 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2020

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