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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2

22-4-2024 < Counter Currents 36 155 words
 



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Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here)


In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants to know what Socrates would teach him.






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