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Reason to Care: The Object and Structure of Self-Knowledge in the Alcibiades I
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Pauliina Remes
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July 25, 2013
Abstract
In Alcibiades 1, the object of self-knowledge is approached as a special case because of its interrelations within the polis. But can such a Platonic principle as the priority of definition - knowing what a thing is before one can say anything else that is auhoritative about it - be applied to the object of self-knowledge? The dialogue strives to individuate one aspect of human nature as focal. This is not a divinity outside human agency, but the soul under that aspect that makes it the agent of purposeful action and subject of her own talk and reasoning, worthy of our care.
Published Online: 2013-07-25
Published in Print: 2013-07
© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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