Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades : a philosophical account of Plato's dialogue Alcibiades Major /: a philosophical account of Plato's dialogue Alcibiades Major. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andre Archie.
• Authors: Archie, Andre
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I Alcibiades Major and Its Interpretation; 1 Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 What the Book's Argument Seeks to Accomplish; 1.2 Existing Scholarship; 1.3 Plan of the Book; References; 2 Method and Structure in Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 2.1 Stokes' Reading; 2.2 Kidd's Reading; 2.3 Hintikka's Reading; 2.4 Conclusion; References; Part II Alcibiades Major and Women; 3 The Philosophical and Political Structure of Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 3.1 Alcibiades Major and Its Early Interpreters. 3.2 Modern Commentators who take both the Dramatic Features and Educative Value of Alcibiades Major Seriously3.3 Conclusion; References; 4 Listen, Alcibiades; Abstract; 4.1 Context: Hypothetical Questions and Arguments and the Spartan and Persian Speech (103a -- 124b6); 4.2 What the Women Say About Alcibiades' Challenge to Their Men; 4.2.1 Midias; 4.2.2 The Persian King's Mother; 4.2.3 Lampido, Daughter of Leotychides; 4.3 What Modern Commentators Have Said About the Prominent Role of Women in the Spartan and Persian Speech; 4.4 Women and Moral Insight; 4.4.1 Amestris and Moral Insight. 4.4.2 Lampido and Moral Insight4.4.3 Conclusion; References; Part III Alcibiades Major and Political Decisions; 5 Instances of Decision Theory in Plato's Alcibiades Major and Minor, and in Xenophon's Memorabilia; Abstract; 5.1 Decision Theory; 5.2 Types of Hypothetical Choices; 5.3 Alcibiades Major; 5.3.1 The Call of Ambition; 5.3.2 The Limits of Ambition; 5.3.2.1 The Transparency of Ambition; 5.4 Alcibiades Minor; 5.5 Xenophon's Memorabilia; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Eudaimonia: Happiness and Priorities in Plato's Alcibiades Major and Plato's Apology; Abstract. 6.1 Priorities and the Apology6.2 Priorities and Alcibiades Major; 6.3 Conclusion; References; Part V Alcibiades Major and Listening Philosophically; 7 Listening to Plutarch's Alcibiades in Plato's Alcibiades Major; Abstract; 7.1 Nicander; 7.1.1 Envy; 7.1.2 Admiration; 7.1.3 Non-Rhythmic Listening and Rhythmic Listening; 7.2 Plato's Alcibiades Major; 7.2.1 Envy and Alcibiades; 7.2.2 Excessive Admiration, Alcibiades and the Spartan and Persian Speech; 7.2.3 Non-Rhythmic Listening and Rhythmic Listening and Alcibiades; 7.3 Conclusion; References; 8 Conclusion; Abstract; Addenda; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 184; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical; Political Science -- History & Theory; Philosophy -- Political; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Philosophy, classical; Political theory; Political science_xPhilosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319152691; 3319152696; 3319152688; 9783319152684
• Related ISBNs: 9783319152684
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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