# Alcibiades (Dialogue) **Domain:** Philosophy / Political Education **Doc Type:** Work Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Plato]], [[Kybernētēs]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition A Platonic dialogue concerned with self-knowledge, political competence and the care required to govern. ## Kybernetiks Context The steersman analogy helps connect trained guidance of a vessel to trained guidance of persons and states. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]