It is a dialogue between Socrates and Sisyphus of Pharsalus. Sisyphus believes that deliberation allows one to find the best course of action, but Socrates is puzzled by what deliberation is, and why it is supposed to be different from guesswork. By the end of the dialogue, it becomes clear that Sisyphus does not know what deliberation is.[1] The dialogue seems to engage with an idea of good deliberation (euboulia) for which Isocrates was a noted exponent.[1][2] The author uses the term dialegesthai[3] in an un-Platonic fashion to refer, not to dialectic, but to what Plato considered eristic.[4]