Wisdom And Beauty In Plato S Charmides

Author : Inbal Cohen-Taber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
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Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666701791

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Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides by Inbal Cohen-Taber Pdf

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 : Inbal Cohen-Taber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666701777

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Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides by Inbal Cohen-Taber Pdf

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 : Plato
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 55 pages
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Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Charmides by Plato Pdf

The Text which has been mostly followed in this Translation of Plato is the latest 8vo. edition of Stallbaum; the principal deviations are noted at the bottom of the page. I have to acknowledge many obligations to old friends and pupils. These are:—Mr. John Purves, Fellow of Balliol College, with whom I have revised about half of the entire Translation; the Rev. Professor Campbell, of St. Andrews, who has helped me in the revision of several parts of the work, especially of the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Politicus; Mr. Robinson Ellis, Fellow of Trinity College, and Mr. Alfred Robinson, Fellow of New College, who read with me the Cratylus and the Gorgias; Mr. Paravicini, Student of Christ Church, who assisted me in the Symposium; Mr. Raper, Fellow of Queen's College, Mr. Monro, Fellow of Oriel College, and Mr. Shadwell, Student of Christ Church, who gave me similar assistance in the Laws. Dr. Greenhill, of Hastings, has also kindly sent me remarks on the physiological part of the Timaeus, which I have inserted as corrections under the head of errata at the end of the Introduction. The degree of accuracy which I have been enabled to attain is in great measure due to these gentlemen, and I heartily thank them for the pains and time which they have bestowed on my work.

Author : J. M. E. Moravcsik,Philip Temko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4244552

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Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts by J. M. E. Moravcsik,Philip Temko Pdf

Author : David Lawrence Levine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 373 pages
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Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498501774

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Profound Ignorance by David Lawrence Levine Pdf

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 : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664158192

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Charmides by Plato Pdf

"Charmides" by Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Платон
Publisher : Litres
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040823925

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Charmides by Платон Pdf

Author : Plato,Benjamin Jowett
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518684211

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Charmides (Annotated) by Plato,Benjamin Jowett Pdf

In Plato's writings there is both unity, and also growth and development; but that we must not intrude upon him either a system or a technical language. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.

Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253219770

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Plato and the Question of Beauty by Drew A. Hyland Pdf

Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us something important about beauty—that it cannot be reduced to logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.

Author : Thomas M. Tuozzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497954

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Plato’s Charmides by Thomas M. Tuozzo Pdf

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 : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009308205

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Plato's Charmides by Raphael Woolf Pdf

Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of drama and argument. Raphael Woolf offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements that pays close attention to its complex and layered structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato. He thus aims to present a compelling and unified interpretation of the dialogue as a whole. The book mounts a strong case for the formal separation of Plato the author from his character Socrates, and for the Charmides as a Platonic defence of the written text as a medium for philosophical reflection. It lays greater emphasis than other readings on the centrality of eros to an understanding of Socratic procedure in the Charmides, and on how the dialogue's erotic and medical motifs work together. The book's critical engagement with the dialogue allows a worked-out account to be given of how temperance, the central object of enquiry in the work, is to be conceived.

Author : Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791475832

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Erotic Wisdom by Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton Pdf

A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues.

Author : Plato,Benjamin Jowett
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1500664731

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Charmides by Plato,Benjamin Jowett Pdf

In Plato's writings there is both unity, and also growth and development; but that we must not intrude upon him either a system or a technical language. Translated by Benjamin Jowett.

Author : Voula Tsouna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316511114

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Plato's Charmides by Voula Tsouna Pdf

A close text commentary showing the interplay of the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic across the dialogue.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543161448

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Charmides by Plato Pdf

The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as -temperance-, -self-control-, or -restraint-. Socrates narrates the dialogue, and says that he has just returned from a battle at Potidaea, a city besieged and conquered by the Athenians at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. Socrates says that, shortly after returning home, he again sought out his habitual conversations by heading to the palaestra of Taureas, a wrestling school where boys gathered. With the help of Chaerephon, who pushes him for details about the battle, he finds his way to Critias and asks him about affairs at home, the present state of philosophy, and whether any of the boys had distinguished himself for wisdom or beauty, or both. Critias answers that Socrates will soon get to know the beauties firsthand, for Charmides and his entourage have just arrived. Critias tells Socrates that Charmides is his cousin, son of his uncle Glaucon. Chaerephon rushes over and asks Socrates if the boy is not beautiful, and Socrates agrees. Chaerephon says suggestively that if Socrates could see his naked form, he would forget all about his handsome face. Socrates says all this will be good and well if the boy also has a noble soul. Socrates tells Critias that before they look at his body, they will ask the boy to strip and show them his soul.