Socrates
First Alcibiades
Recorded oral teaching
First Alcibiades
Ἀλκιβιάδης α΄
Socrates approaches the young Alcibiades, about to enter politics, and shows him that he does not know the just and the advantageous he claims to teach the Athenians. Before ruling others he must take care of himself, and the "self" is the soul, which knows itself by looking into another soul as the eye sees itself in the pupil of another eye. The Neoplatonists read it as the introduction to the whole of Plato's philosophy.
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Authorship note
Transmitted among Plato's works and considered genuine in antiquity; many scholars today regard it as the work of a pupil in the Academy.
Editions and translations
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English
Socrates
Alcibiades I
The Conscious LibraryAlcibiades I
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
El primer Alcibíades
The Conscious LibraryEl primer Alcibíades
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 1 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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