The soul will be endowed with wisdom as soon as it is in contact with the divine, when it has grasped it and been able to think and know the divine as the source of thought and knowledge.
Alcibiades: for Socrates, care of the self is 1) related to political action for those who wish to govern others, 2) because the education is inadequate and this care can't be provided by any education, and one must take care of the self throughout one's life with the crucial, decisive age of maturity. The adult must prepare himself for his old age, 3) the relationship to the erotics of boys.
Knowing oneself, knowing the divine, and seeing the divine in the self is typical of the Platonic and Neo-Platonist form of the care of the self. But it is not found in the other Epicurean, Stoic, and even Pythagorean forms of care of the self.
For Platonism, knowledge and access to the truth could only take place on condition of a spiritual movement of the soul with regard to itself and the divine, with the self as divine and with the divine as self.
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