Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major

• Main Author: Samuel Oliveira (auth)
• Other Authors: Mário Jorge de Carvalho (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Coimbra University Press 2020
• Series: Outros titulos
• Subjects: Philosophy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid's Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high r...