TEREZIS, CH. – PETRIDOU, L.: To the theoretical foundations of temperance in Plato’s Charmides (158e-160d)
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Philosophica Critica, vol. 9, 2023, no. 1, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 18-35
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Publication date: 2023
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Abstract: The aim of the present article is to examine how the debate is constituted in the context of a Platonic dialogue, in order to approach a virtue –in this case, the virtue of temperance– ontologically and epistemologically and to specialize its general definition in terms of how it is presented to a particular person. Our reflections are structured in two subchapters, in which the analytical method meets the method of synthetic judgments. In terms of content, we would note that, focusing on passage 158e-160d, we attempt a systematic reading of the virtue of temperance and, at the same time, we examine the origins of Socrates’ interrogative method with a view to the speculative construction of its definition. It is worth noting that the passage we examine is crucial from a methodological point of view, as it reveals the terms on which the Socratic dialectic works.
Keywords: Plato – Charmides – Socrates – temperance – dialectics
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2023.9.1.18-35
Keywords: Plato – Charmides – Socrates – temperance – dialectics
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2023.9.1.18-35
