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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Education towards a reasonable humanism

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Platonic qua predication

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 453-472, December 2024.
Abstract Platonic arguments often have premises of a particular form which is misunderstood. These sentences look like universal generalizations, but in fact involve an implicit qua phrase which makes them a fundamentally different kind of predication.
Rachel Barney
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Speaking Truth to ‘Platonism’? Some Thoughts on Alcibiades and Erôs

Philosophies
This article reads Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s Symposium in terms of the later Foucault’s examination of ‘parrhēsia’, or ‘frank spokenness’. It contends that, in part, Alcibiades’ stress on the sheer particularity and individuality of erotic attraction—
Ian Leask
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Drinking Wine with Friends: Plato's Lesson for Contemporary Democratic Theory

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 1205-1216, October 2024.
Abstract Democratic theory tells us that citizens should be engaged, informed, passionate, reasonable, willing to speak up, ready to listen, and militant but also restrained. Yet we are rarely told how they might achieve this. The challenge is particularly relevant for theories that distinguish between the liberal and democratic principles of our ...
Eno Trimçev
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El discurso de Alcibíades en el banquete de platón: teatro filosófico

Escritos, 2020
Este artículo explora la escena teatral diseñada por Platón en el Banquete en que aparece Alcibíades ebrio y decepcionado tras sus intentos por cazar a Sócrates.
Hernán Martínez Millán
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Jouer de l’aulos à Athènes était-il politiquement correct ?

Pallas, 2015
According to Plutarch, the young Alcibiades would have refused to play the aulos on the pretext that this practice distorted the appearance and the features of a man and was unworthy of an Athenian citizen; his example was followed and therefore the ...
Emmanuèle Caire
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Two kinds of curiosity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 811-832, May 2024.
Abstract Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'.
Daniela Dover
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THE TYRANT'S VICE: PLEONEXIA AND LAWLESSNESS IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC

, 2019
Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 146-169, December 2019.
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
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„Poznaj samego siebie” w interpretacji Bazylego Wielkiego

Vox Patrum, 2008
There are some references to the famous Delphic inscription „Know thyself” (gnothi sauton) in the Hexaemeron (IX 6; VI 1) and the Homilia in illud: Attende tibi ipsi by St. Basil of Caesarea. In the Homilia in illud: Attende tibi ipsi St.
Ewa Osek
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