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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Alcibiades"”.
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Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades
… to situate our reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades Major among both ancient and modern readings of the dialogue. Since the nineteenth century the issue of authenticity has preoccupied most modern commentators of the dialogue, but from all reasonable evidence, commentators from the ancient …
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Self-knowledge in Alcibiades I
… topic of self-knowledge as it is presented in *Alcibiades I*. Although self-knowledge is widely recognised as the unifying topic of the dialogue, it has proved difficult to derive one unified conception of self-knowledge from it. I argue that this is partly because the dialogue treats of three …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… characters serve other philosophical functions. Alcibiades--the worst man in the democracy--and Critias--the worst in the oligarchy--are the most notorious characters.. This dissertation argues that Plato uses these characters in order to open a diachronic dimension in the synchronic accounts of …
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Duty, Honor, Country: Generalship and Institutional Magnanimity
… complicated environments. The struggles of Alcibiades and Coriolanus to live peacefully within their regimes illustrate the importance of properly formed virtue. This analysis can continue throughout the examples of American political and military leaders. Indeed, albeit altered, the …
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Merging the Natural with the Artificial: The Nature of a Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics
This thesis is concerned with the rise and fall of cybernetics, understood as an inquiry regarding the nature of a machine. The collapse of this scientific movement, usually explained by external factors such as lack of funding, will be addressed from a philosophical standpoint. Delving deeper into …