In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.

作品目录

Introduction

Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia and Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia

The role of Eros in Improving the Pupil, or What Socrates Learned from Sappho

Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia

Socrates and Models of Platonic Love

Dougal Blyth, University of Auckland, New Zealand

The Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic Pedagogy

Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada

Plato's Oblique Response to Issues of Socrates' Influence on Alcibiades: An Examination of the Protagoras and the Gorgias

Reuben Ramsey, University of Newcastle, Australia

Socratic Ignorance, or the Place of the Alcibiades I in Plato's Early Works

Yuji Kurihara, Gakugei University, Tokyo

Did Alcibiades Learn Justice from the Many?

Joe Mintoff, University of Newcastle, Australia

The Dual-Role Philosophers: An Exploration of a Failed Relationship

Anthony Hooper, University of Sydney, Australia

Authenticity, Experiment or Development: The Alcibiades I on Virtue and Courage

Eugenio Benitez, University of Sydney, Australia

Revaluing Megalopsuchia: Reflections on the Alcibiades II

Matthew Sharpe, University of Melbourne, Australia

Improvement by Love: From Aeschines to the Old Academy

Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia

Ice-Cold in Alex: Philo's Treatment of the Divine Lover in Hellenist Pedagogy

Fergus King, University of Newcastle, Australia

Proclus' Reading of Plato's Sôkratikoi Logoi: Proclus' Observations on Dialectic at Alcibiades 112d-114e and Elsewhere

Akitsugu Taki, Josai International University, Japan

Socrates' Divine Sign: From the Alcibiades to Olympiodorus

François Renaud, Université de Moncton, Canada

'The Individual' in History and History 'in General': Alcibiades, Philosophical History and Ideas in Contest

Neil Morpeth, University of Newcastle, Australia

Appendix 1. Fourth-Century Politics and the Date of the Alcibiades I

Appendix 2. Report on the Working Vocabulary in the Doubtful Dialogues

a. The Working Vocabulary of the Alcibiades

b. The Working Vocabulary of the Theages

Bibliography

Index