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Alcibiades I: A Young Politician's Search for Self-Knowledge - Plato's Dialogue on Ambition and the Soul (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

By Plato, Tim Zengerink (Translator)
Hardcover
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By Plato, Tim Zengerink (Translator)
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What if your greatest weakness was not knowing who you really are?

Alcibiades I is one of Plato's most personal and psychologically rich dialogues. It introduces a passionate and brilliant young man, eager to lead Athens and win fame, but guided into self-reflection by the ever-probing Socrates. Rather than feed Alcibiades' ambition, Socrates questions whether someone who does not know the self-what it is, what it governs, and how it should be nurtured-can possibly govern others or act with ...