Abstract
Erasmus of Rotterdam (Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) wrote Adage 2201, entitled The Silenes of Alcibiades (in Latin Sileni Alcibiadis), drawn from the Plato’s dialogue Symposium, 215 a - 215 b. The humanist highlights the moment when Alcibiades makes a statement and praises Socrates exalting his wisdom, consecrating Plato’s Philosophy, particularly the one which includes the essentially religious and moral dialogs, less the cosmological and metaphysical ones. His interest in Platonic-Socratic Philosophy, especially by the praise Alcibiades made to Socrates, included a conception of a world “in reverse, because it unfolded in the dialectic between the visible and invisible, the exterior and interior, falsehood and truth.
Keywords
Origen; Plato; Politics; Ethics; Religion.