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Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades

Author : Andre Archie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319152696
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades written by Andre Archie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades Major. The book argues that Alcibiades Major accomplishes its goal, which is to redirect Alcibiades’ political ambitions, not by arguing for specific propositions based on specific premises. The dialogue accomplishes its goal by generalizing the notion of argument to include appeals to Alcibiades’ doxastic attitudes toward his ability and knowledge to become a powerful ruler of the Greek people. One such doxastic attitude that Alcibiades holds about himself, and one that Socrates deftly disabuses him of, is that he does not have to cultivate himself to be competitive with the local, Athenian politicians. Socrates reminds Alcibiades that his true competitors are not Athenian politicians, but rather the Spartan and Persian kings. Consequently, the psychological momentum of the dialogue is motivated by Socrates’ aim to engender the right sort of beliefs in Alcibiades.

Socrates and Alcibiades

Author : Ariel Helfer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249135
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Socrates and Alcibiades written by Ariel Helfer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades

Author : Andre Archie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319152707
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades written by Andre Archie and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato's dialogue Alcibiades Major. The book argues that Alcibiades Major accomplishes its goal, which is to redirect Alcibiades' political ambitions, not by arguing for specific propositions based on specific premises. The dialogue accomplishes its goal by generalizing the notion of argument to include appeals to Alcibiades' doxastic attitudes toward his ability and knowledge to become a powerful ruler of the Greek people. One such doxastic attitude that Alcibiades holds about himself, and one that Socrates deftly disabuses him of, is that he does not have to cultivate himself to be competitive with the local, Athenian politicians. Socrates reminds Alcibiades that his true competitors are not Athenian politicians, but rather the Spartan and Persian kings. Consequently, the psychological momentum of the dialogue is motivated by Socrates' aim to engender the right sort of beliefs in Alcibiades. .

The Life of Alcibiades

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades

Author : James M. Magrini
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433182662
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades written by James M. Magrini and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades is an important book that develops an interpretation of the essence of the political (politics of the soul) as elucidated through the analysis of Socrates' practice of "self-cultivation" or care for the soul. In the process, it also confronts the issue of the problematic relationship between philosopher and statesman that is present to Plato's dialogues. The analysis contributes the following to ongoing scholarship: (1) It offers a detailed and critical discussion of the neglected and ofttimes maligned dialogue the Alcibiades; (2) It contributes to the reinterpretation of the traditional view of the Socratic method arguing for elenchus as an expression and instantiation of the normative politics it seeks to define; and (3) In developing a unique account of Socratic participatory democracy, it has the subordinate aim of demonstrating the value of Socratic practice over our own impoverished practice of political discourse. The text is suitable for scholars working in the fields of philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and classical studies. It would serve as an excellent secondary text for graduate level courses reading Plato's dialogues because it contains an extensive and sustained discussion of the Socratic method. In addition to graduate students, it is appropriate for college students pursuing courses in philosophy in their third or fourth year of study. Laypersons who are intellectually curious about philosophy, particularly those interested in Socrates, will be attracted to this text.

Alcibiades II

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades II written by Plato and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Alcibiades II" by Plato. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104655
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts written by David Johnson and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Alcibiades I

Author : Plato
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades I written by Plato and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Nemesis

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Nemesis written by David Stuttard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism

Author : Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398996
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism written by Mauro Bonazzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Sophocles and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492927
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Alcibiades I & II

Author : Plato
Publisher : 1st World Library - Literary Society
ISBN 13 : 9781421808444
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades I & II written by Plato and published by 1st World Library - Literary Society. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Alcibiades, who is described as a very young man, is about to enter on public life, having an inordinate opinion of himself, and an extravagant ambition. Socrates, 'who knows what is in man, ' astonishes him by a revelation of his designs

Self-knowledge and the Art of Politics in Plato's Alcibiades Major

Author : Jonathan M. Hanen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Self-knowledge and the Art of Politics in Plato's Alcibiades Major written by Jonathan M. Hanen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In the Alcibiades Major, Plato portrays Socrates' very first attempt to educate the youthful Alcibiades, who exhibits the double nature of a potential philosopher and a potential statesman. Acting under the guise of a political advisor, Socrates initiates a philosophical investigation in partnership with Alcibiades. This study argues that the conversation consists in three parts: a propaedeutic discussion of justice, an investigation of the problem of self-knowledge and self-rule and an outline of a theory of state sovereignty. In the first part, Socrates refutes Alcibiades' paradoxical views that falsely oppose justice and the expedience or advantage of the demos and constructs a rhetorically accommodated story about Persia and Sparta in order to deflate Alcibiades' pretensions to political wisdom. In the second part, Socrates refutes Alcibiades' defective view of the connection between political justice and friendship, which mistakenly reduces political justice to consensus; and friendship, to unanimity of mind. Socrates then leads Alcibiades to the philosophical problem of the nature of self- knowledge and its self-identical limits, and articulates a model of self-knowledge based on the dialectical investigation of the nature of virtue. In the third part, Socrates develops an outline of a theory of state sovereignty from his model of self-knowledge and his conception of self-rule. Contra Annas (1985) but following Gordon (2001), this study argues that Alcibiades is not foredoomed to political corruption. A philosophical education affords him the best chances of achieving a pure love of justice and, as a second sailing, an experience of the friendship rooted in dialectics would endow him with an abiding respect for the common good and the free institutions of the city. Contra Blitz (1995) and Forde (1987), this study argues that Socrates attempts to effect an erotic conversion that would transform Alcibiades' love of honor into love of wisdom. The manifestly philosophical discourse between Socrates and Alcibiades culminates in Plato's famous binocular model of the dialectical quest for self-knowledge, wherein the eye of the soul progresses toward self-knowledge by looking in the eye of a kindred soul engaged in the dialectical investigation of virtue. Philosophy thus comes to sight as the highest form of friendship because Socrates conceives the community of discourse to be a cooperative enterprise that aims to cancel the false or particular views of its members and to preserve what is true and universal. In this sense, friendship is knowledge of justice. Contra Friedlader (1957) and Schleiermacher (1836), this study argues that the conversation contains a Platonic political teaching. Socrates deduces from his model of self-knowledge an outline of a theory of state sovereignty. Socrates exhorts Alcibiades to avoid demerasty or populist demagogy, and to effect what he calls a "distribution of virtue to the citizens." This study argues that Socrates divides the sovereign power to enact law between the government and the body politic, as distinct from modem doctrines that seek to locate an indivisible sovereign power in the popular will. Using an analogy between the self-rule of the individual soul and that of the city, Socrates contends that the soul of the state, the corporate will of the public person composed of the statesman and the body politic, must exhibit moderation and justice in order to achieve self-knowledge and happiness. This study argues that Socrates' outline of state sovereignty implies that the political liberty of the body politic and the secular rule of law are foremost among the practical criteria for distinguishing sound rule from tyranny.

Plato: Alcibiades

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521634144
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Plato: Alcibiades written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern edition of Plato's Alcibiades, aimed at both students and scholars.

Alcibiades I & II

Author : Plato
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595404442
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades I & II written by Plato and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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. Alcibiades, who is described as a very young man, is about to enter on public life, having an inordinate opinion of himself, and an extravagant ambition. Socrates, 'who knows what is in man, ' astonishes him by a revelation of his designs

Political Ambition and Socratic Philosophy

Author : Ariel Oscar Helfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Political Ambition and Socratic Philosophy written by Ariel Oscar Helfer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines and interprets Plato's three major presentations of the infamous Athenian general and Socratic pupil Alcibiades as a paragon of political ambition: the Alcibiades, the Second Alcibiades, and Plato's Symposium. These texts are, for the first time, treated as authentic Platonic works and presumed to present a coherent though incomplete narrative of the relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades. The dynamic Platonic portrait of Alcibiades' changing disposition toward democracy, law, virtue, and piety offers insight into the corruptibility of political ambition. By studying it, we can recover a valuable classical point of view on the nature of political ambition, especially in its relation to civic-spiritedness on one hand, and to the self-serving pursuit of private or political goods on the other. This point of view can in turn be brought to bear upon our own political situation as citizens of liberal democracy, with its complex tradition of distrust of the political ambitious. Finally, the question of Socrates' corruption of Alcibiades itself provides invaluable insight into the matter of Socrates' own enigmatic philosophic project, which brought him into fatal conflict with the city of Athens.

The Politics of Socratic Humor

Author : John Lombardini
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964918
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Socratic Humor written by John Lombardini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Socrates an ironist? Did he mock his interlocutors and, in doing so, show disdain for both them and the institutions of Athenian democracy? These questions were debated with great seriousness by generations of ancient Greek writers and helped to define a primary strand of the western tradition of political thought. By reconstructing these debates, The Politics of Socratic Humor compares the very different interpretations of Socrates developed by his followers—including such diverse thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Aristophanes, and the Hellenistic philosophers—to explore the deep ethical and political dimensions of Socratic humor and its implications for civic identity, democratic speech, and political cooperation. Irony has long been seen as one of Socrates’ most characteristic features, but as Lombardini shows, irony is only one part of a much larger toolkit of Socratic humor, the broader intellectual context of which must be better understood if we are to appropriate Socratic thought for our own modern ends.