Overview
- First comprehensive political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades Major
- Each chapter provides an exegetic reading of a topic in Alcibiades Major that is multidisciplinary
- Given this volume’s comprehensive approach to issues of method in Alcibiades Major, it is relevant to interpretive issues raised in other Socratic dialogues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Alcibiades Major and Its Interpretation
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Alcibiades Major and Women
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Alcibiades Major and Political Decisions
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Alcibiades Major and Political Priorities
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Alcibiades Major and Listening Philosophically
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Keywords
- Alcibiades Major
- Alcibiades Politics
- Alcibiades decision theory
- Alcibiades methodology
- Alcibiades political decisions
- Alcibiades political listening
- Alcibiades priorities
- Alcibiades women
- Eudaimonia Alcibiades
- Plutarch’s Alcibiades
- Political Philosophy Plato
- Political Philosophy Socrates
- Xenophon Memorabilia
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades
Book Subtitle: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialogue Alcibiades Major
Authors: Andre Archie
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15269-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15268-4Published: 25 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15269-1Published: 04 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 143
Topics: Classical Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Philosophy