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1 day ago · Jean-Baptiste Regnault: Socrates dragging Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure (1791) (). Alcibiades was born in Athens.The family of his father, Cleinias, had old connections with the Spartan aristocracy through a relationship of xenia, and the name "Alcibiades" was of Spartan origin.
2 days ago · My new book, How to Think Like Socrates, includes a remarkable conversation between Socrates and the Athenian noble Alcibiades (based on Plato’s Alcibiades I).In it, Socrates claims that the famous maxim inscribed outside the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know thyself” (Gnothi seauton), can best be understood by imagining that Apollo has instructed our eye to see itself.
3 days ago · Socrates (born c. 470 bce, Athens [Greece]—died 399 bce, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher whose way of life, character, and thought exerted a profound influence on Classical antiquity and Western philosophy.
- Richard Kraut
- Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, one of the three greatest figures of the ancient period of Western philosophy (the others were Plato and...
- Socrates professed not to teach anything (and indeed not to know anything important) but only to seek answers to urgent human questions (e.g., “Wha...
- Socrates wrote nothing. All that is known about him has been inferred from accounts by members of his circle—primarily Plato and Xenophon—as well a...
- Socrates was widely hated in Athens, mainly because he regularly embarrassed people by making them appear ignorant and foolish. He was also an outs...
- Socrates could have saved himself. He chose to go to trial rather than enter voluntary exile. In his defense speech, he rebutted some but not all e...
5 days ago · Aristotle’s most famous teacher was Plato (c. 428–c. 348 BCE), who himself had been a student of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE). Socrates, Plato , and Aristotle, whose lifetimes spanned a period of only about 150 years, remain among the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy.
- Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history. He made pioneering contributions to all f...
- After his father died about 367 BCE, Aristotle journeyed to Athens, where he joined the Academy of Plato. He left the Academy upon Plato’s death ab...
- Aristotle wrote as many as 200 treatises and other works covering all areas of philosophy and science. Of those, none survives in finished form. Th...
- Aristotle’s thought was original, profound, wide-ranging, and systematic. It eventually became the intellectual framework of Western Scholasticism,...
5 days ago · Chapter 4 Socrates and Coherent Desire (Gorgias 466a–468e) Chapter 5 The Ethical Function of the Gorgias’ Concluding Myth; Chapter 6 Shame in the Gorgias; Chapter 7 Desire and Argument in Plato’s Gorgias; Chapter 8 Cooperation and the Search for Truth; Chapter 9 Freedom, Pleonexia, and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias; Chapter 10 Revealing ...
2 days ago · To borrow a term from classical music, the Alcibiades I has a “sonata” form: ABA. The first part (A1) consists of Socrates’ initial dialogue with Alcibiades. Part B is the speech about the Persian and Spartan queens. The third part (A2) is a return to the dialogue form. Socrates and Alcibiades first return to the idea of justice.
4 days ago · According to Robinson, Alcibiades I and Charmides share the thesis that self and soul are one and the same, but they represent different accounts of the soul–body relationship. Socrates in the Charmides goes further than what he says in the Alcibiades I.
