Lysis (Plato)
Lysis is one of the socratic dialogues written by Plato and discusses the nature of friendship. The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequitted love with Lysis. Socrates proposes several possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship: Friendship between like and like; friendship between unlike and unlike; friendship between neither-good-nor-bad and good in the presence of evil. In the end, Socrates discards all these ideas as wrong. While no definite conclusion is reached, it is suggested that the common pursuit of the "good and beautiful" (kalos kagathos) is the true motivation for friendship.
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