Martha Nussbaum and Alcibiades
| Abstract | Nussbaum seems to have had a spell during which she made villains heroes (and sometimes visa versa). Thus she has argued, in effect, that Steerforth is the hero of David Copperfield, and Heathcliff the most admirable character in Wuthering Heights. Here I discuss her more or less explicit claim that Alcibiades is the hero, (and Socrates the villain) in Plato’s Symposium. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Socrates heroes and villains Admiration | |||||||||
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