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Nous tombons, au d but du Phil be, sur une conversation qui vient de finir entre Socrate et Phil be, o ils ont affront leurs id es respectives sur ce qui doit tre le but de la vie humaine, sur le souverain bien. Phil be a soutenu qu'il consiste dans le plaisir, Socrate, dans la sagesse et l'intelligence. Comme Phil be est but son id e, Socrate s'adresse Protarque, ami de Phil be, moins ent t que lui, pour continuer la discussion. Socrate et Protarque conviennent de ne pas l'abandonner avant d'avoir reconnu si c'est le plaisir ou la sagesse qui est la fin que nous devons nous proposer, ou si c'est dans un autre genre de vie qu'il faut chercher le vrai bien de l'homme.

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