The "Second Alcibiades": a Platonist dialogue on prayer and on ignorance
"This work provides a challenging new interpretation of the Second Alcibiades from the Platonic corpus, seeing it 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 epistem...
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Las Vegas ; Zurich ; Athens
Parmenides Publishing
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Platonica minora, dubia et spuria. The unknown Plato. Shorter, dubious, and spurious works in the Platonic corpus
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This work provides a challenging new interpretation of the Second Alcibiades from the Platonic corpus, seeing it 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 re-translated 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"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 239 Seiten illustrations (black and white) 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781733535786 |
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Table of Contents ix xi xiii xv List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On Prayer—A Second Alcibiades 1 A Platonist Theory of Prayer 1 The Drama and Tension of a Relationship 5 The Dialogue’s Place in the Corpus Platonicum 12 The Dialogue and the Midwife’s Art 23 Translation Chapter One 29 : The Opening 51 The Occasion of the Conversation 51 Knowing Alcibiades 56 Escaping one’s Own Notice 58 Oedipus’ Blindness 62 Chapter Two 67 : Going Wrong 67 The Investigation of Madness Madness and the Introduction of Megalopsukhia 70 Unexpected Vocabulary, 138a—140e 75 Tentative Judgments and Limited Perspective 78 Conclusion 85 Chapter Three: Power and Violence. Nothing to do with Alcibiades? 87 A Mistaken Attraction to Tyranny 87 The Switch to Monologue 90 The Virtues of Ignorance 98 Chapter Four: Good and Sometimes Bad Knowledge 103 Ignorance and Knowledge of the Best 103 Ignorance: Individual and City 107 The Problem with Tail Winds 113 “Homeric” Confirmation 116 The Language of 143b-148b 120
Chapter Five: Socrates’ Later Monologue 123 Clarification 123 The Egyptian Story: Athens and Sparta 124 Pseudo-Homeric Lines 128 The Language of the Egyptian Story 131 The Poet’s Prayer Reconsidered 133 Chapter Six: Reversion 139 Linking the End with the Beginning 139 Agreeing on Education by Socrates 142 Loire’s Effects 145 Socrates’ Final Words 147 Chapter Seven: How “Academic” is the Alcibiades II? 155 The Dialogue’s Epistemology 155 Language and Protagoreanism 160 How Plato Wrote: The New Academic View 163 How “New Academic” is the Language? 166 Vocabulary Reminiscent of Arcesilaus and of Skepticism 178 Chapter Eight: Finding a Context 185 Introduction 185 Alexander III 185 The Peripatetics 187 Multivariate Analysis of Relevant Vocabulary 189 How Close are Alcibiades II and Eryxias? 196 Authorship 199 Love according to Grantor through a Poet’s Eyes 208 Grantor and Arcesilaus: A Coda 211 Appendix I: The Principal Components 215 Appendix II: Truth in Eryxias 217 Bibliography 219 Index Locorum 225 Index of Names 235 Index of Selected Topics 239 |
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