In the canon
Early Socratic Dialogues: (Ion, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus)
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 390 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 400
Socrates stops two boys outside a wrestling school and asks them what a friend is. By the end of the afternoon nobody can say, and he admits it himself, an old man and two children, all of them calling one another friends and not one able to explain the word.
self-knowledge would certainly be maintained by me to be the very essence of knowledge
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