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Shame And Conflict - Lysis's Philosophical Akrasia, L. Albert Joosse
Shame And Conflict - Lysis's Philosophical Akrasia, L. Albert Joosse
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
We will see a conflict within Lysis between his newly stimulated love for wisdom and his habitual self-restraint. Born and raised an aristocrat, Lysis experiences conflict when his mind is enticed outside its wonted limits. What he experiences is, in fact, shame of himself: he notices that part of him falls short of the ideal he has been brought up with and to which part of him still adheres. His is a philosophical akrasia.