Socrates's Faulty About Lysias Speech

Socrates pointed out at that Lysias said the same thing over and over again and did not have a whole lot of reason baking up his argument. Socrates also thought that Lysias was not truly interested in the topic and felt that Lysias was flaunting the fact that he could state the same idea and make it sound like a new idea by reformatting his sentences. This introduces the idea that Lysias’ speech is not as strong as Phaedrus originally thought or made it sound out to be. What Socrates thinks is faulty about Lysias speech is that he only approaches it from one side and does not approach it from both points of view and then gives poor reasoning on why his view is the correct one. Lysias’ claim is basically that sex is better just as a business