Titolo La "cura di sé" come prima tappa del progresso spirituale dell'uomo nei commentari neoplatonici all'Alcibiade primo Periodico Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 7 - Pagina finale: 28
The theme of self-care is at the center of many contemporary ethical proposals, which draw it from ancient philosophies. This contribution will compare the first formulation of the concept of self-care, presented in Plato’s Alcibiades I , with its late-antique Neoplatonic developments, in which self-knowledge and self-care constitute not the primary objective of the citizen-man – as in today’s ethics of care – but only the preparatory phase to a philosophical life, free from the passions and tasks of political life.