Article: Phronesis: Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2005.(Character overview)

Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, KEIMPE ALGRA

La figure d'Ulysse chez les Socratiques : Socrate polutropos, DAVID LEVYSTONE

At the end of the fifth century B.C.E., the character of Odysseus was scorned by most of the Athenians: he illustrated the archetype of the demagogic, unscrupulous and ambitious politicians that had led Athens to its doom. Against this common doxa, the most important disciples of Socrates (Antisthenes, Plato, Xenophon) rehabilitate the hero and admire his temperance and his courage. Yet it is most surprising to see that, in spite of Odysseus' lies and deceit, these philosophers, who condemn steadfastly the sophists' ...

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