Menomena Essays

Lysimachus' lack of awareness is not just a comic foil for the serious business of the dialogue. It has been noted that his serious but unfocused use of social value-terms of high aspiration, e.g. for all their children to be 'the best' and not end up, as he and Melesias are, 'without reputation', augurs the dilemma of the unity of separateness of virtues which is the central to the final part of the argument of the dialogue. Secondly his tediously repetitive demand on the educational need for care