[PDF] The Platonic Alcibiades I eBook

Author : François Renaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316390306

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Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be approached in the same way as most other Platonic dialogues. It paints a vivid portrait of a Socrates in his late thirties tackling the unrealistic ambitions of the youthful Alcibiades, urging him to come to know himself and to care for himself. François Renaud and Harold Tarrant re-examine the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I with an eye on those interpreters who cherished it most. Modern scholars regularly play down one or more of the religious, erotic, philosophic or dramatic aspects of the dialogue, so ancient Platonist interpreters are given special consideration. This rich study will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521634144

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The first modern edition of Plato's Alcibiades, aimed at both students and scholars.

Author : François Renaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521199123

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This book re-examines the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I through the eyes of those interpreters who cherished it most.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1585104655

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Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the most controversial man of his day, the gifted and scandalous Alcibiades. In addition to Alcibiades’ famous speech from Plato’s Symposium, this text includes two dialogues, the Alcibiades I and Alcibiades II, attributed to Plato in antiquity but unjustly neglected today, and the complete fragments of the dialogue Alcibiades by Plato’s contemporary, Aeschines of Sphettus. These works are essential reading for anyone interested in Socrates’ improbable love affair with Athens’ most desirable youth, his attempt to woo Alcibiades from his ultimately disastrous worldly ambitions to the philosophical life, and the reasons for Socrates’ failure, which played a large role in his conviction by an Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.

Author : Ariel Helfer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812249135

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In Socrates and Alcibiades, Ariel Helfer provides a new interpretation of Plato's account of the relationship between Socrates and the infamous Athenian general Alcibiades, in the process revealing a complex Platonic teaching on the nature and corruptibility of political ambition.

Author : Plato
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2022-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368311840

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Reproduction of the original.

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501739964

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This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.

Author : Michael Griffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474295649

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Olympiodorus (AD c. 500–570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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THE First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the Apology of a know-nothing who detects the conceit of knowledge in others. The two have met already in the Protagoras and in the Symposium; in the latter dialogue, as in this, the relation between them is that of a lover and his beloved. But the narrative of their loves is told differently in different places; for in the Symposium Alcibiades is depicted as the impassioned but rejected lover; here, as coldly receiving the advances of Socrates, who, for the best of purposes, lies in wait for the aspiring and ambitious youth. Aeterna Press

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191536822

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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.