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  1. www.sparknotes.com › philosophy › symposiumThe Symposium Section 12: 216c - 223d - SparkNotes

    The other point of significance is Socrates' behavior the next day. Neither drunk nor hung-over, Socrates goes about his business as always. His attraction to wisdom is so strong that nothing can tire him out or distract him from his pursuit. A summary of Section 12: 216c - 223d in Plato's The Symposium.

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  2. www.thecollector.com › alcibiades-general-and-loverAlcibiades: His Relationship with Socrates, Political Life ...

    Sep 21, 2022 · In Plato’s Symposium, Alcibiades and Socrates debate the subject of love, beauty and sexual attraction (Plato, Symposium, 216c – 223d). A drunken Alcibiades draped in finery and crowned in a bushy wreath of ivy and violets asserts that Socrates pretends to be attracted to young men and ignorant of all things.

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    The portrayal of Socrates in the Symposium (for instance his refusal to give in to Alcibiades' sexual advances) is consistent with the account of Socrates put forward by Xenophon, who also wrote his own Symposium, and the theories that Socrates defends throughout the Platonic corpus. Plato shows off his master as a man of high moral standards, unstirred by baser urges and fully committed to ...

  5. www.litcharts.com › lit › the-symposiumThe Symposium 212b-222b Summary & Analysis - LitCharts

    The Symposium: 212b-222b Summary & Analysis. The Symposium: 212b-222b. While the guests are discussing Socrates ’s speech, there’s suddenly a loud knocking on the door, the sound of revelers, and the noise of a flute-girl. Soon they hear Alcibiades ’s drunken voice in the courtyard, and Alcibiades is led in, wearing a garland on his head.

  6. chs.harvard.edu › chapter › 6-a-study-in-violets6. A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium

    6. A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium. C. D. C. Reeve [1] Agathon’s drinking-party has reached its philosophical apogee in Socrates’ vivid, Diotima-inspired description of the ultimate object of all love and desire, the Platonic form of beauty—the beautiful itself. All of a sudden, there is a commotion and loud knocking.

  7. www.jstor.org › stable › 26564660Ariel Helfer: Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato s Drama of ...

    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.

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  9. link.springer.com › article › 10Philosophy and Empire: On Socrates and Alcibiades in Plato's ...

    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 ...