sentences:  Very similar beliefs are reported of Socrates by Plato's less well-known contemporary Xenophon of Athens.Commentators such as Friedrich Schleiermacher have noted that "the initial question is by no means the only and perhaps not even the main tendency of the conversation" and Paul Friedländer notes further that the dialogue goes beyond not only the "simple question" but also its "simple answer (that the truly good and perfect is above both reason and pleasure, but thought and intelligence are incomparably closer to perfection than pleasure and enjoyment can ever be)".One of the major ontological themes of the work is that there are four kinds of being, or four "elements"