| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Tarrant and Marguerite Johnson -- The role of Eros in improving the pupil, or what Socrates learned from Sappho / Marguerite Johnson -- Socrates and platonic models of love / Dougal Blyth -- The eye of the beloved : Opsis and Eros in Socratic pedagogy / Victoria Wohl -- Plato's oblique response to issues of Socrates' influence on Alcibiades : an examination of the protagoras and the Gorgias / Reuben Ramsey -- Socratic ignorance, or the place of the Alcibiades I in Plato's early works / Yuji Kurihara -- Did Alcibiades learn justice from the many? / Joe Mintoff -- The dual-role philosophers : an exploration of a failed relationship / Anthony Hooper -- Authenticity, experiment or development : the Alcibiades I on virtue and courage / Eugenio Benitez -- Revaluing Megalopsuchia : reflections on the Alcibiades II / Matthew Sharpe -- Improvement by love : from Aeschines to the old academy / Harold Tarrant -- Ice-cold in Alex : Philo's treatment of the divine lover in hellenistic pedagogy / Fergus J. King -- Proclus' reading of Plato's Sôkratikoi logoi : Proclus' observations on dialectic at Alcibiades 112d-114e and elsewhere / Akitsugu Taki -- Socrates' divine sign : from the Alcibiades to Olympiodorus / François Renaud -- 'The individual' in history and history 'in general' : Alcibiades, philosophical history and ideas in contest / Neil Morpeth |
| Summary |
In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato. Alcibiades I -- Criticism and interpretation
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Socrates
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| SUBJECT |
Socrates fast |
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Alcibiades I (Plato) fast |
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tarrant, Harold
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Johnson, Marguerite, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781472502612 |
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1472502612 |
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1472502620 |
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9781472502629 |
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1472554507 |
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9781472554505 |
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1299051669 |
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9781299051669 |
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