It is an advantage to make such discovery in To match them, Alkibiades must make himself as good as possibleīut good - for what end, and under what circumstances? Abundant illustrative examplesĪlkibiades, puzzled and humiliated, confesses his ignorance. Himself, are, the kings of Sparta and Persia. But the real opponents, against whom Alkibiades is to measure Other Athenian statesmen are equally ignorant. Sokrates declines: he can do nothing butĬomment on the preceding - Sokratic method - the respondent makes the discoveries for himselfĪlkibiades is brought to admit that whatever is just, is good, honourable, expedient: and that whoever acts honourably, both does well, and But neither does Alkibiades know the expedient. The Athenians do not generally debate about just or unjust - which they consider plain to every one - butĪbout expedient and inexpedient, which are not coincident with just and unjust. Alkibiades is going to advise the Athenians about what he does not know himselfĪnswer farther amended. They are at variance among themselves about it. The multitude cannot teach just and unjust, for Alkibiades learnt it from the multitude, as he learnt to speak Greek. How, or from whom, has Alkibiades learnt to discern or distinguish Just and Unjust? He never learnt it from any one he always knew it, evenĪnswer amended. We must fight those whom it isīetter to fight - to what standard does better refer? To just and unjust Upon? What has he learnt, and what does he know?Īlkibiades intends to advise the Athenians on questions of war and peace. Questions put by Sokrates, in reference to Alkibiades in his intended function as adviser of the Athenians. Persons - Sokrates and AlkibiadesĮxorbitant hopes and political ambition of Alkibiades PLATO, and the OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES.īy GEORGE GROTE, author of the ‘history of greece’.
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