Tag: Self-Knowledge

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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

Commentary

  • 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

  • Self-knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus

    - Griswold, Charles L. Jr., Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
    Excerpt: The Phaedrus presents the appearance of a tapestry that has come partially unraveled into a tangled skein of themes and images. The warp and woof are Socrates and Phaedrus, a pair so ill matched that their relationship strikes us as comic. Their… More

  • On the Alcibiades I

    - Forde, Steven, "On the Alcibiades I," The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues," ed. Thomas L. Pangle, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, 222-39.
    Excerpt: The Alcibiades I was held in the greatest esteem in the Platonic school of antiquity. There was a tradition in fact that placed the dialogue at the head of all of Plato’s works, as the opening to the entire corpus; hence, perhaps, the… 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