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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781009036610
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Book description

The Charmides is a difficult and enigmatic dialogue traditionally considered one of Plato's Socratic dialogues. This book provides a close text commentary on the dialogue which tracks particular motifs throughout. These notably include the characterization of Critias, Charmides, and Socrates; the historical context and subtext, literary features such as irony and foreshadowing; the philosophical context and especially how the dialogue looks back to more traditional Socratic dialogues and forward to dialogues traditionally placed in Plato's middle and late period; and most importantly the philosophical and logical details of the arguments and their dialectical function. A new translation of the dialogue is included in an appendix. This will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Plato and of ancient philosophy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Reviews

'Voula Tsouna’s welcome new edition of Plato's Charmides deserves to become the go-to book on this brilliant but too often marginalized dialogue. From the synoptic level all the way down to that of textual fine detail, she combines sensitive adjudication of existing interpretations, analytic subtlety, a keen eye for intertextuality, and a series of fine-tuned responses to the human interactions which frame and carry forward the dialogical narrative.'

David Sedley - Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emeritus, University of Cambridge

'Written with an accessible clarity, Tsouna weaves together a comprehensive account of both the arguments and the dramatic action of this difficult dialogue, situating it in broader philosophical and political contexts. With all this, she offers an original and creative reading of the dialogue as a whole.'

Melissa Lane - Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University

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Contents

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  • Plato’s Charmides
    pp i-ii
  • Plato’s Charmides - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • An Interpretative Commentary
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vi
  • Additional material
    pp vii-viii
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
    pp ix-xii
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-56
  • Chapter 2 - The Prologue (153a1–159a10)
    pp 57-106
  • Chapter 4 - Charmides’ Second Definition
    pp 124-134
  • Temperance Is a Sense of Shame (160d5–161b4)
  • Chapter 7 - Critias’ Speech
    pp 159-169
  • Temperance Is Knowing Oneself (164d4–165c4)
  • Chapter 10 - Can There Be an Epistême of Itself?
    pp 196-235
  • The Argument from Relatives (167c8–169c2)
  • Chapter 11 - The Argument from Benefit (169c3–175a8)
    pp 236-272
  • Chapter 12 - The Epilogue (175a9–176d5)
    pp 273-299
  • Charmides, or On Temperance: A Peirastic Dialogue
    pp 300-325
  • Bibliography
    pp 326-338
  • Index
    pp 339-346

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