The Second Alcibiades: A Platonist Dialogue on Prayer and on Ignorance A Platonist Dialogue on Prayer and on Ignorance
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
27.04.2023
Verlag
Parmenides PublishingSeitenzahl
259
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/15.2/1.8 cm
Gewicht
431 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-73353-578-6
Providing a challenging new interpretation of the Second Alcibiades from the Platonic corpus, this treatment sees the dialogue not only as a work of philosophic ethics, but also as one steeped in ancient literature, particularly Euripidean tragedy. The dialogue's philosophy is underpinned by an epistemology paying special attention to one's personal viewpoint, as its language shows. Dramatically, it presents a Socrates who falls into a similar trap from the one he steers Alcibiades away from, facing the dangers of a tragic character thanks to their mutual attraction. Understood in this way the dialogue, here retranslated to bring out such features, is revealed as the work of an author with linguistic and literary gifts who is deeply conscious of the human condition. While reminiscent of the Academic Skeptic picture of Plato, it is the work of somebody still moving cautiously in that direction.
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