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An Educational Implication for the Concept of Fraternity in Plato’s Lysis

The concept of fraternity or friendship plays a crucial role in school or society. However, it has been overlooked in education in terms of an academic aspect. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concept of philia(fraternity) in Plato’s Lysis and to suggest educational implications. For this purpose, this paper explores the Pythagorean notion of philia in ancient Greece and analyses the concept of philia in Plato’s Lysis. According to Plato, the concept of philia is connected to the feeling of love, ie. the desire for the pursuit of wisdom. The concept of philia is a kind of desire for sharing all good things with friends or lovers. This conception of philia offers some suggestions that school should be a learning community which is pursuing the truth and knowledge as well as sharing it with classmates rather than competing between them.