Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 1
The Greatest Pick-Up Line of All Time
Greg Johnson
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Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here)
Author’s Note: I am typing up and editing my lecture notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I and Gorgias to incorporate them into a new book tentatively entitled Tyranny and Wisdom: An Introduction to Platonic Philosophy. The Phoenician neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus (c. 245–c. 325) placed the Alcibiades I first and the Gorgias second in his curriculum of Plato’s dialogues, and with good reason, for together they constitute an excellent introduction to Socratic moral and political philosophy.
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I would love to see your upcoming book on Platonic thought. Your writings on Aristotelian philosophy are among my favorite articles of yours on Counter-Currents.
Thanks. Take a look at The Trial of Socrates. I am very proud of that book.
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