The following essay presents a close reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I. In the text, Socrates is depicted as a young teacher approaching young Alcibiades, a future prominent and hubristic ruler of post-Periclean democratic Athens. In his propadeutic task, Socrates appeals to Alcibiades’ unlimited self-love in order to gain his confdence and attention, rousing his spirited ambition and keen intellect, trying to tempt him into becoming a philosopher. We explore the roots of Alcibiades’ character, his desire for primacy intermingled with his fear of failure. For motives that will be explored in this essay, the mayeutic education of Alcibiades towards the life of wisdom not only failed, b...
In the Alcibiades I dialogue, Socrates attempts to educate the extremely ambitious and beautiful Alc...
In the final speech of Plato's Symposium, the young, aristocratic Alcibiades accuses Socrates of bei...
In this paper I argue that Socrates' speech in Plato’s Symposium cannot by itself express Plato’s vi...
Socrates’ admirers and successors in the fourth century and beyond often felt the need to explain So...
O Alcibíades Primeiro está inserido na temática da dimensão educativa da filosofia platônica e consi...
The research in progress has as its structural focus the political man formation study from Platonic...
The following essay presents a close reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I. In the text, Soc...
textThe relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades was infamous in antiquity. Alcibiades’ notorio...
The aim of this dissertation is to situate our reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades Major amo...
This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socrat...
Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the auth...
Sócrates es presentado en el Cármides de Platón como un "brujo" que con unas palabras mágicas puede ...
This paper offers a case for recognizing the Alcibiades i as a contribution to political philosophy....
Here I present the hypothesis that Plato may have used aspects of the philosophy and style of Alcida...
The paper focuses on the concepts of virtue and self-knowledge in Alcibiades I and Aeschines’ A...
In the Alcibiades I dialogue, Socrates attempts to educate the extremely ambitious and beautiful Alc...
In the final speech of Plato's Symposium, the young, aristocratic Alcibiades accuses Socrates of bei...
In this paper I argue that Socrates' speech in Plato’s Symposium cannot by itself express Plato’s vi...
Socrates’ admirers and successors in the fourth century and beyond often felt the need to explain So...
O Alcibíades Primeiro está inserido na temática da dimensão educativa da filosofia platônica e consi...
The research in progress has as its structural focus the political man formation study from Platonic...
The following essay presents a close reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I. In the text, Soc...
textThe relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades was infamous in antiquity. Alcibiades’ notorio...
The aim of this dissertation is to situate our reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades Major amo...
This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socrat...
Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the auth...
Sócrates es presentado en el Cármides de Platón como un "brujo" que con unas palabras mágicas puede ...
This paper offers a case for recognizing the Alcibiades i as a contribution to political philosophy....
Here I present the hypothesis that Plato may have used aspects of the philosophy and style of Alcida...
The paper focuses on the concepts of virtue and self-knowledge in Alcibiades I and Aeschines’ A...
In the Alcibiades I dialogue, Socrates attempts to educate the extremely ambitious and beautiful Alc...
In the final speech of Plato's Symposium, the young, aristocratic Alcibiades accuses Socrates of bei...
In this paper I argue that Socrates' speech in Plato’s Symposium cannot by itself express Plato’s vi...