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Sep 21, 2022 · Alcibiades was a brilliant and colorful Athenian politician with a penchant for switching sides during the Peloponnesian War. He was a student and comrade of Socrates, with whom he maintained a complex relationship. Also, he cuckolded the King of Sparta, and he was one of the best strategists to sail the seas in the 5th century BCE.
democracy, I think Socrates should have helped. The second time Alcibiades betrays Socrates by not taking advice to try to figure out why he was acting silly, which is what Socrates wanted to do with him, I think Socrates did the right thing by saying that Alcibiades didn’t deserve his help. I think Socrates might have tried to help before.
onger had he continued his self-restraint.– H. BlitsUniversity of Delaware (emeritus)Ar. el Helfer: Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato’s Drama of Political Ambitio. 001218After Socrates, the most prominent figur. in Platos dialogues is the intensely’ambitious and politically notorious Alcibiades. In ancient Athens, it was rumored that Socra.
Sep 17, 2007 · When Socrates was accused in 399 BC of corrupting the young, the harm that his one-time associate Alcibiades did to Athens provided fuel for the charges against him. By setting the Symposium in 416 BC, just one year before Alcibiades led Athens on the disastrous Sicilian expedition, Plato revisits the charge that Socrates corrupts the young. In particular, does Socrates' freedom from the ...
- Mary P Nichols
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tion and Philosophic Constraint: Alcibiades, Socrates and the Sicilian Expedi. ionIntroductionOne of the charges brought against Socrates was “corruption of the youth.” Xenophon, who was not present at the trial, expressed his amazement on hearing this, and commenting on this charge he mentioned Alcibiades as one of the Athenians allegedly ...
Socrates. (469—399 B.C.E.) Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of ...
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Chapter 3. he Philosophical and Political Structure of Plato’s Alcibiades MajorAbstractGiven the ominous shadow cast by Alcibiades over Socrates’. trial, the scho. assessment of Alcibiades Major s deserves to be revisited. The aim of this’chapter is to critically review the various. treatments of Alcibiades Major among ancient, modern and ...
