Dialogue Three: Virtue and the Good Life

Socrates Meets Jesus

Setting: Same hillside. The fire burns lower now, flickering shadows across their faces. The night is thick with stillness. You can feel eternity pressing in.

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Socrates (hands folded):
All my life I have told men: The unexamined life is not worth living. To live well is to live virtuously—to pursue wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice. Do you agree?

Jesus:
Those are noble pillars. But without love, they crumble. Even the wisest man can be lost if love does not dwell in him.

Socrates (tilting his head):
Love? I have spoken of eros, the desire that drives the soul toward the divine. But I see you speak of something else.