Plato :Alcibiades I; Symposium [IBR2026]

ALCIBIADES: Perhaps, Socrates, you are not aware that I was just going to ask you the very same question—What do you want? And what is your motive in annoying me, and always, wherever I am, making a point of coming? I do really wonder what you mean, and should greatly like to know. SOCRATES: Then if, as you say, you desire to know, I suppose that you will be willing to hear, and I may consider myself to be speaking to an auditor who will remain, and will not run away? ALCIBIADES: Certainly, let me hear. SOCRATES: You had better be careful, for I may very likely be as unwilling to end as I have hitherto been to begin. ALCIBIADES: Proceed, my good man, and I will listen. I’ve been dabbling about in the Platonic dialogs for several years now, but I was completely unaware of the existence of this one until very recently when I started checking out Alcibiades. While the moocs, OCWs and reading groups I’ve done start with the Meno or the Euthyphro and follow up with the Symposium. I’ve now…