Relationship Between Alcibiades And Socrates

The conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades continues with them talking about how the soul is separate from the body. There is nothing that has more authority than the soul within the body. Socrates then states that people who know their parts of the body know what belongs the them, but not themselves. This means that their body parts are for their bodies, but they body parts do not belong to the soul. Again. Socrates brings up that people who tend to their bodies tend to what belongs to them rather than what belongs to themselves. This helps Socrates bring up the point that the person who loves the body is someone who who loved something that belonged to the body, but Socrates is the one who loves Alcibiades’ soul and not his body. Love is loving another person’s soul as long as they are making progress. The person who loves Alcibiades soul will not leave him unlike the people who love the body. Socrates will love him unless he became corrupt and ugly. The body changes and the soul continues to grow. Socrates points out that he is
If an eye was to look at itself in the mirror, it would see itself. If a different body part were to be in the mirror, only the eye could see it and it would not see itself. This brings up a point that Socrates says that if a soul knows itself, it would have to look into the wisdom of the soul. The way we can do this is by looking up to God and he will guide us to find our soul. Socrates proceeds to saying that if someone is ignorant about what belongs to him and is ignorant of what belongs to others, he will be ignorant to what the city needs. This helps to show Alcibiades that he is not ready and needs Socrates’ help. We need to get possession of ourselves in order to really truly knows what belongs to us. Alcibiades finishes by saying that he needs Socrates to help him and that they would look after one another. The only thing that Socrates is worrying about is that the city will overcome