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  • Charmides

    - Recommended Translations: "Charmides," trans. R. K. Sprague in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997). "Charmides," trans. Thomas and Grace West in Plato: Charmides. (Hackett, 1986).
    Excerpt: We arrived yesterday evening from the army at Potidaea, and I sought with delight, after an absence of some time, my wonted conversations. Accordingly I went into the wrestling-school of Taureas, opposite the Queen’s shrine, and there I came… More

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  • Socratic Politics and Self-Knowledge: An Interpretation of Plato’s Charmides

    - Bruell, Christopher, "Socratic Politics and Self-Knowledge: An Interpretation of Plato’s Charmides," Interpretation 6, no. 3 (October 1977), 141-203.
    Excerpt: In Plato’s Charmides, Socrates has a discussion about moderation with two cousins, Charmides and Critias. The conversation shakes the conviction of Charmides, a youth of great beauty and of great promise, that he possess that virtue and… More

  • On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues

    - Bruell, Christopher, On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
    Excerpt: Nothing is so well established in our Western democracies today as the right of each to seek happiness in his or her own way. It is as if a pass to that effect had been issued to us at birth. This much is obvious. Less obvious is the fact that… More

  • On Interpreting Plato’s Charmides

    - 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.
    Excerpt: 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… More

  • The Tyrant’s Temperance: Charmides

    - Brann, Eva, "The Tyrant's Temperance: Charmides," The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings, Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2004, 66-87.
    Excerpt: Let me here bring in the subtitle of the Charmides. We don’t know who supplied it, but it is quite accurate: “Concerning Temperance: Tentative.” The dialogue is certainly tentative; it makes an unsuccessful try at discovering the… More