Formative Tension in the First Alcibiades (103a-119a)
This paper seeks to make an interpretative reading of the First Alcibiades dialogue (103a-119a) in the perspective of formation, understood by Bustamante (2019) as a relationship of the subject to knowledge (trainer) and a transfer of work from the subject to the other (trainee) (pp. 36-37). In this sense, it can be understood there are at least three tensions that make training possible in the dialogue namely: 1) existential tension, which refers to the story of both characters; 2) dialogical tension, which allows to see the consistencies and dissonances in the conversation; and finally, 3) an intellectual tension, in which ignorance is a fundamental condition for a formative effect to occur or not. As an epilogue of such reading, we intended to point out some characteristics of the formative exercise described in the Platonic dialog and that are related to philosophy as a way of life.