- Title
- 'The individual' in history and history in general: Alcibiades, philosophical history and ideas in contest
- Creator
- Morpeth, Neil
- Relation
- Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator p. 200-213
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/alcibiades-and-the-socratic-lover-educator-9780715640869
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Alcibiades is, at once, an historical figure and an archetypal individual. Also, in an anthropological sense and in terms of traditions of thought, Alcibiades is a truly remarkable, individuated moment in history. Alcibiades the historical personage and philosophical character-as-actor has become a source for historical and philosophical memories, that is, a human gathering place, a focus, reference and a trans-historical persona for the passages of history and intellect - a place where singular and collective human actions and behaviours matter and where particular and general social forces remain; contentiously in play. With the classical world of the Athenian empire immediately behind the philosophical stage and dramatically present in the foreground of the Alcibiades I, and with the Spartan world still presenting intellectual and social puzzles, who better than the exiled, prodigal Athenian son, Alcibiades and Socrates to discuss the deep waters -the social anthropology of a once-real world and its strikingly individuated conduct. Significantly, these modes of human conduct must be clearly seen as situated within the broad agonistic context of Hellenic and Mediterr!ilnean civilisations. These 'particular' and 'general' ideas and arguments are swept by Mediterranean scenes and characters.
- Subject
- Alcibiades; history; individual; philosophy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/939425
- Identifier
- uon:12804
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780715640869
- Language
- eng
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