Title Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades : a philosophical account of Plato's dialogue Alcibiades Major / Andre Archie

Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series SpringerBriefs in philosophy SpringerBriefs in philosophy. Contents Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I Alcibiades Major and Its Interpretation; 1 Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 What the Book's Argument Seeks to Accomplish; 1.2 Existing Scholarship; 1.3 Plan of the Book; References; 2 Method and Structure in Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 2.1 Stokes' Reading; 2.2 Kidd's Reading; 2.3 Hintikka's Reading; 2.4 Conclusion; References; Part II Alcibiades Major and Women; 3 The Philosophical and Political Structure of Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 3.1 Alcibiades Major and Its Early Interpreters 3.2 Modern Commentators who take both the Dramatic Features and Educative Value of Alcibiades Major Seriously3.3 Conclusion; References; 4 Listen, Alcibiades; Abstract; 4.1 Context: Hypothetical Questions and Arguments and the Spartan and Persian Speech (103a -- 124b6); 4.2 What the Women Say About Alcibiades' Challenge to Their Men; 4.2.1 Midias; 4.2.2 The Persian King's Mother; 4.2.3 Lampido, Daughter of Leotychides; 4.3 What Modern Commentators Have Said About the Prominent Role of Women in the Spartan and Persian Speech; 4.4 Women and Moral Insight; 4.4.1 Amestris and Moral Insight 4.4.2 Lampido and Moral Insight4.4.3 Conclusion; References; Part III Alcibiades Major and Political Decisions; 5 Instances of Decision Theory in Plato's Alcibiades Major and Minor, and in Xenophon's Memorabilia; Abstract; 5.1 Decision Theory; 5.2 Types of Hypothetical Choices; 5.3 Alcibiades Major; 5.3.1 The Call of Ambition; 5.3.2 The Limits of Ambition; 5.3.2.1 The Transparency of Ambition; 5.4 Alcibiades Minor; 5.5 Xenophon's Memorabilia; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Eudaimonia: Happiness and Priorities in Plato's Alcibiades Major and Plato's Apology; Abstract 6.1 Priorities and the Apology6.2 Priorities and Alcibiades Major; 6.3 Conclusion; References; Part V Alcibiades Major and Listening Philosophically; 7 Listening to Plutarch's Alcibiades in Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 7.1 Nicander; 7.1.1 Envy; 7.1.2 Admiration; 7.1.3 Non-Rhythmic Listening and Rhythmic Listening; 7.2 Plato's Alcibiades Major; 7.2.1 Envy and Alcibiades; 7.2.2 Excessive Admiration, Alcibiades and the Spartan and Persian Speech; 7.2.3 Non-Rhythmic Listening and Rhythmic Listening and Alcibiades; 7.3 Conclusion; References; 8 Conclusion; Abstract; Addenda; References Summary 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 Analysis politicologie political science filosofie philosophy politiek politics Philosophy (General) Filosofie (algemeen) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Plato. Alcibiades I -- Criticism and interpretation Socrates SUBJECT Socrates fast Alcibiades I (Plato) fast Subject Political science & theory. Social & political philosophy. Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783319152691 3319152696 3319152688 9783319152684

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