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Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Peitho, 2014
This study examines the way in which the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus treats an episode of the dialectic communication between Socrates and Alcibiades in the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I.
Christos Terezis, Marilena Tsakoymaki
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Human–Artificial Intelligence Relationships in Lacanian Perspective: Desire, Silence, and the Big Other

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a Lacanian psychoanalytic interpretation of emerging forms of human–artificial intelligence (AI) relationships, particularly emotionally responsive systems such as AI companions and AI girlfriends. It addresses the notion of “AI psychosis,” understood not as a diagnostic category but as a descriptive term for disturbances ...
Tibor A. Brečka
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Alcibiades ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ: Socratic Philosopher and Tragic Hero?

, 2013
Alcibiades and Socrates: oil and water, never to mix? Many previous scholars have thought so, finding Alcibiades of interest only as a failed philosophical exemplum, but this article suggests that, at least in the Symposium, Plato presents Alcibiades as ...
Fulkerson, Laurel
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Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major

, 2020
It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major.
Samuel Oliveira, Mário Jorge de Carvalho   +1 more
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Plato: Smp. 212e4-223a9. Alcibiades: An Eulogy of Which Socrates? That of Plato, That of Antisthenes and Xenophon or That of All Three?

Peitho, 2016
In the Symposium, there are two revelations: one is that of the woman of Mantinea, the other that of Alcibiades. The former (201d 1–212e 3) proposes a Socrates reshaped by Plato, but what Socrates does the latter (216a 6–217a 3) express?
Giuseppe Mazzara
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The Self‐as‐Philosopher: A Schema‐Informed Reading of Philosophy as a Way of Life

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 174-188, April 2026.
Abstract This article offers an original reading of the process and outcomes of training in philosophy as a way of life. By drawing on research and theory from the fields of cognitive psychology and adult learning, it argues that the transformative effects frequently ascribed to the practice of philosophy as a way of life can helpfully be ...
Joel Owen
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The play of forgetting Alcibiades

, 2021
The opening of Protagoras leads to a dramatic misunderstanding concerning the companion’s suspicion that Socrates has been in pursuit of the young Alcibiades. The remark that today Socrates paid him no attention and forgot about him, together with
Pascual, Àngel
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El Banquete: De la visión abstracta de Eros a la historia de amor de Alcibíades / The Symposium: From Eros’s abstract vision to the love story about Alcibiades

Cauriensia, 2014
El presente trabajo analiza los discursos de Sócrates y Alcibíades en el Banquete de Platón. Aquél presenta lo que suele considerarse como concepción platónica del amor, narrando la conversación que mantuvo con Diotima de Mantinea, en la que se considera
Ignacio García Peña
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Amore del corpo e amore dell’anima in due testi platonici

Peitho
In the Platonic Symposium the rhetorician Pausanias celebrates celestial love, directed to a greater degree to the soul rather than the body and which involves the lover and the beloved in the practice of a common virtue.
Linda M. Napolitano
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The Return and “Purification” of Alcibiades [PDF]

, 2023
This paper describes some aspects of Alcibiades’ return to Athens in 407 B.C., focusing on some neglected aspects an especially on the coincidence between his repatriation and the first day of the Plynteria, which was considered an ominous day because
Alessandra Coppola
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