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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: [23] Cf. Plat. "Prot." 318 A; Aristoph. "Thesmoph." 21, "learned
conversazioni."
Hermogenes broke in: By Hera, Socrates, I much admire you for many
things, and now to see how in the act of gratifying Callias you are
training him in duty and true excellence.[24]
[24] Lit. "teaching him what sort of man he ought to be." This, as we
know, is the very heart and essence of the Socratic (= {XS})
method. See "Mem." I. ii. 3.
Why, yes (he said), if only that his cup of happiness may overflow, I
wish to testify to him how far the love of soul is better than the
love of body.
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