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Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872200108
A literal translation, allowing the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through.
Author : Voula Tsouna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316511114
A close text commentary showing the interplay of the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic across the dialogue.
Author : Thomas M. Tuozzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497954
This book argues that Plato's Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights. Through careful, contextually sensitive analysis of Plato's arguments concerning the virtue of sophrosyne, Thomas M. Tuozzo brings the dialogue's lines of inquiry together, carrying Plato's argument forward to a substantive conclusion. This innovative reading of Charmides reverses misconceptions about the dialogue that stemmed from an impoverished conception of Socratic elenchus and unquestioned acceptance of ancient historiography's demonization of Critias. It views Socratic argument as a tool intended to move its addressee to substantive philosophical insights. It also argues, on the basis of recent historical research, a review of the fragments of Critias' oeuvre and Plato's use of Critias in other dialogues, that Plato had a nuanced, generally positive view of Critias. Throughout, readers are alerted to textual difficulties whose proper resolution is crucial to understanding Plato's often abstract arguments.
Author : Raphael Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009308199
Offers a compelling, comprehensive and unified reading of the Charmides, one of Plato's most attractive but enigmatic dialogues.
Author : N. van der Ben
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789060322741
The Charmides is among Plato's most intriguing and perplexing dialogues. The range of subjects touched or treated is extremely wide: matters logical, epistemological, moral, ethical, political, and religious. In many cases, these are discussed in a highly inconclusive and aporetic way, especially when it comes to the subject of knowledge. Finally, the dialogue is also difficult on almost every level of its expression; mock-reasonings, misunderstandings, ironies, paradoxes, and perplexities abound. As a result, the run of its many arguments, both on the short and the long range, and its overall structure are not easy to discern. If a text of such a character is to be made completely accessible, a full-scale commentary is required; it is much to be regretted, therefore, that there is no commentary in which the difficulties of the Greek, the argument, and the place of the philosophical problems in the development of Plato's thought are comprehensively and coherently explained. This monograph does not aspire to that status, but makes an essential contribution towards achieving that aim (in addition to the many other works in the field, Lamb's scrupulous translation of 1927 and Bloch's penetrating study of 1973 in particular) by presenting a detailed examination of forty-two passages of which the interpretation is disputed; many more minor problems are dealt with along the way. In all matters of interpretation, special attention has been paid to defining the exact place of the passage within the run of the, often intricate, argument. The result of this attention can also be observed in an analytical 'Summary of the contents of the Charmides'.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872201341
Presents the translations of "The Laches and Charmides." This title includes notes and a bibliography.
Author : Inbal Cohen-Taber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666701791
Although wisdom and beauty are prized everywhere, in what exactly they consist is a matter of dispute that even has tragic political implications. As the traditional elites of fifth-century BCE Athens felt their social privileges being chipped away by democratic encroachments, they clung to their traditional belief that they—and they alone—were “beautiful and good” enough to rule. Plato’s alternately comic and serious dialogue Charmides is set in this Athens and explores the nature of temperance (sōphrosunē: in eating, in drinking, in life in general). In this book,. Cohen-Taber uses the dramatic structure of this dialogue to show how Socrates challenges the elitist views of his two interlocutors, revealing Plato’s critiques of aristocrats’ smug complacency about their supposed exclusive natural beauty and intellectual capacities (kalokagathia) that grant them the natural right to rule. Plato decided to write the dialogue because he saw this claim of superiority as continuously threatening to destabilize his polis. This leads Plato, Cohen-Taber argues, to suggest alternative, and more egalitarian, accounts of wisdom and beauty as the drama about sōphrosunē unfolds. These accounts are thoroughly moral, and therefore open to people from any economic class.
Author : John Peter Anton,George L. Kustas,Anthony Preus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873956230
Papers presented to the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy since its beginnings in the 1950's.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624660818
Rosamond Kent Sprague’s translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. This edition includes notes by Sprague and an updated bibliography.
Author : David Lawrence Levine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498501774
Returning from the battle of Potidaea, Socrates reenters the city only to find it changed, with new leadership in the making. Socrates assumes the mask of physician in order to diagnose the city’s condition in the persons of the young and charismatic Charmides and his ambitious and formidable guardian Critias. Beneath the cloak of their self-presentations, Doctor Socrates discovers a profound and communicable disease: their incipient tyranny, “the greatest sickness of the soul.” He thereby is able to “foresee” their future and their role in the oligarchy (The Thirty Tyrants) that overthrows the democracy at the end of the Peloponnesian War. The unusual diagnostic instrument of this physician of the city: the question of sophrosyne (customarily translated as moderation). The analysis of the soul of this popular favorite uncovers a distorted development with little prospect of self-knowledge, and that of the guardian, a profound disabling ignorance, deluded and perverted by his presumed practical wisdom. Alongside on the bench sits Socrates whose ignorance, by contrast, shows itself to be enabling, measured and prospective. In this way, the profound ignorance of the tyrant and the profound ignorance of the philosopher are made to mutually illuminate one another. In the process, Levine brings us to see Plato’s extended apologia or defense of Socrates as “a teacher of tyrants” and his counter-indictment of the city for its unthinking acceptance of its leaders. Moreover, in the face of modern skepticism, we are brought to see how such “value judgments” are possible, how Plato conceives the prospects for practical judgment (phronȇsis). In addition we witness the care with which Plato presents his penetrating diagnoses even amidst compromised circumstances. Levine, further, is at pains to situate the specific dialogic issues in their larger significance for the philosophic tradition. Lastly, the author’s inviting style encourages the reader to think along with Socrates. The question of tyranny is always relevant. The question of our ignorance is always immediate. The conversation about sophrosyne needs to be resumed.
Author : T. M. Robinson,Luc Brisson
Publisher : Sankt Augustin : Academia Verlag
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015054171411
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528790505
“Charmides and Other Poems” is a 1913 collection of poetry by Oscar Wilde. The poems include: “Charmides”, “Requiescat”, “San Miniato”, “Rome Unvisited”, “Humanitad”, “Louis Napoleon”, “Endymion (For Music)”, “Le Jardin”, “La Mer”, “Le Panneau”, “Les Ballons”, “Canzonet”, “Le Jardin des Tuileries”, “Pan Double Villanelle”, “In the Forest”, “Symphony in Yellow”, etc. A fantastic collection of some of Wilde's best poetry not to be missed by fans and collectors of his seminal work. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Other notable works by this author include: “Picture of Dorian Gray” (1890), “Salome” (1891), and “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895). Ragged Hand is proudly republishing this classic collection of poetry now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226470979
Plato’s dialogues show Socrates at different ages, beginning when he was about nineteen and already deeply immersed in philosophy and ending with his execution five decades later. By presenting his model philosopher across a fifty-year span of his life, Plato leads his readers to wonder: does that time period correspond to the development of Socrates’ thought? In this magisterial investigation of the evolution of Socrates’ philosophy, Laurence Lampert answers in the affirmative. The chronological route that Plato maps for us, Lampert argues, reveals the enduring record of philosophy as it gradually took the form that came to dominate the life of the mind in the West. The reader accompanies Socrates as he breaks with the century-old tradition of philosophy, turns to his own path, gradually enters into a deeper understanding of nature and human nature, and discovers the successful way to transmit his wisdom to the wider world. Focusing on the final and most prominent step in that process and offering detailed textual analysis of Plato’s Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic, How Philosophy Became Socratic charts Socrates’ gradual discovery of a proper politics to shelter and advance philosophy.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349861996
Author : Jyl Gentzler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199244987
Method in Ancient Philosophy brings together fifteen new, specially written essays by leading scholars on a broad subject of central importance. It is characteristic of human beings that they direct their activities by reasoning, but methods of reasoning, even towards the same ends, vary. Self-conscious reflection on the methods of reasoning marks the beginning of philosophy in the West; and the views of the ancient Greeks have had considerable influence upon our own assumptions about the demarcations between different kinds of enquiry and the sorts of methods that are appropriate for them. For this reason, examination of how the ancients reasoned, and how they thought about methods of reasoning, helps us to see how they came to hold the views they did, and how we have come to think as we do. Most of the essays focus on Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle, but earlier and later ancient philosophy is brought into the picture by essays on Eleatic and Epicurean thought.