Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts
Title | Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts PDF eBook |
Author | David Johnson |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1585104655 |
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.
Socrates and Alcibiades
Title | Socrates and Alcibiades PDF eBook |
Author | David Martel Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Love |
ISBN | 9781585105717 |
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.
Socrates and Alcibiades
Title | Socrates and Alcibiades PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Focus |
Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | Greece |
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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."--
Four Texts on Socrates
Title | Four Texts on Socrates PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801485749 |
Translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense and on the charges against him.
Socrates and Alcibiades
Title | Socrates and Alcibiades PDF eBook |
Author | Plato |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
Socrates and Alcibiades
Title | Socrates and Alcibiades PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Helfer |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0812249135 |
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.
Plato's Symposium
Title | Plato's Symposium PDF eBook |
Author | Frisbee Sheffield |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2006-07-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191536822 |
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.