A close text commentary on Plato's Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features of the dialogue in great detail and shows how the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic play into one another and evolve across the dialogue.
A close text commentary on Plato's Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features of the dialogue in great detail and shows how the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic play into one another and evolve across the dialogue.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Voula Tsouna is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her other books include: [Philodemus] [On Choices and Avoidances] (1995), a critical edition and commentary of one of the Herculaneum papyri on Epicurean ethics, which received the Theodor Mommsen Award; The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge, 1998), recently translated into Modern Greek (2019); The Ethics of Philodemus (2007); and a collection of essays on the Socratics and the Hellenistic schools (2012). She is currently preparing a monograph on Republic Books 8 and 9 and another on The Normativity of Nature in Hellenistic Philosophy, to appear in the series Cambridge Elements in Ancient Philosophy, edited by James Warren.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction; 2. The prologue (153a1-159a10); 3. Charmides' first definition of sôphrosynê: Temperance is a kind of quietness (159b1-160d4); 4. Charmides' second definition: Temperance is a sense of shame (160d5-161b4); 5. Charmides abandons 'the best method'. The third definition: Temperance is 'doing one's own (161b4-162b11); 6. Enter Critias. The third definition revisited: Temperance is the doing or making of good things (162c1-164d3); 7. Critias' speech. Temperance is knowing oneself (164d4-165b4); 8. Socrates and Critias debate the technê analogy. From 'knowing oneself' to 'the knowledge of itself' (165b5-166e3); 9. Critias' final definition: Temperance is 'the science of itself and the other sciences' or 'the science of science' (166e4-167a8). The third offering to Zeus (167a9-c8); 10. Can there be an epistêmê of itself? The Argument from Relatives (167c8-169c2); 11. The Argument from Benefit (169c3-175a8); 12. The Epilogue; Appendix: Plato's Charmides. Translation. Alternative format; Bibliography.
1. Introduction; 2. The prologue (153a1-159a10); 3. Charmides' first definition of sôphrosynê: Temperance is a kind of quietness (159b1-160d4); 4. Charmides' second definition: Temperance is a sense of shame (160d5-161b4); 5. Charmides abandons 'the best method'. The third definition: Temperance is 'doing one's own (161b4-162b11); 6. Enter Critias. The third definition revisited: Temperance is the doing or making of good things (162c1-164d3); 7. Critias' speech. Temperance is knowing oneself (164d4-165b4); 8. Socrates and Critias debate the technê analogy. From 'knowing oneself' to 'the knowledge of itself' (165b5-166e3); 9. Critias' final definition: Temperance is 'the science of itself and the other sciences' or 'the science of science' (166e4-167a8). The third offering to Zeus (167a9-c8); 10. Can there be an epistêmê of itself? The Argument from Relatives (167c8-169c2); 11. The Argument from Benefit (169c3-175a8); 12. The Epilogue; Appendix: Plato's Charmides. Translation. Alternative format; Bibliography.
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