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4b29b56625g	Catherine A. Borck	Becoming Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues	2010		.txt	text/plain	235	8	32	Thus philosophical friendship necessarily situates itself in a tense relation to political friendship. The dissertation offers three arguments about Socratic friendship in the Platonic dialogues: a) Socratic friendship solicits, enables, and sustains philosophic dialogue and rewards the search for wisdom; b) Socratic friendship moderates the eros of the potential tyrant by offering a good both noble and pleasurable; and c) Socratic friendship sets the conditions for inverting the ethical matrix of the friend/enemy dichotomy dominant in ancient Greek political life.	cache/4b29b56625g.txt	txt/4b29b56625g.txt