Bernadete, Seth, "On Interpreting Plato's Charmides," The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy, ed. Ronna Burger and Michael Davis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 231-56.

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The Charmides is about sophrosune, “moderation and self-knowledge”; but part of Socrates’ original question in the dialogue is about the state of philosophy in Athens; and since self-knowledge is presumably the mark of Socrates’ philosophizing, the Charmides is about Socrates’ own understanding of his kind of philosophizing; it is the self-knowing philosopher Socrates confronting his own teaching about self-knowledge. The Charmides, therefore, is a Socratically narrated dialogue (one of four), for narration of dialogue is the most obvious way to represent reflexivity.

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