Speaking Truth to ‘Platonism’? Some Thoughts on Alcibiades and Erôs

This article reads Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s <i>Symposium</i> 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—in his case, attraction to...

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Main Author: Ian Leask
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Philosophies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10/3/67
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