Abstract

Plato’s philosophy has been catalogued as idealist, but this issue can be quite haste if the content of his dialogues is deeply examined. In the Alcibiades I Socrates shows his lover how important is to let him be educated by his god. In this dialogue, we could see as well something inherent to our existence; possibly something which we have dealt with, something that seems strange for us: the master-disciple relationship, the possible fear presented in the philosophic exercise and the importance of the body in the man self-comprehension, those issues dealt in this work more than grabbing the truth tend to offer a light about what philosophy can provide to us and how we can contribute to it.