Plato's politics of passion : Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic self-knowledge in the Charmides, Republic, and Symposium /
"Guided by the question 'What is Socratic self-knowledge,' this study begins with Plato's Charmides because it is within this work, more than any other, that the utility of self-knowledge becomes the predominant theme. In this dialogue, Socrate explores the possibility of ignoran...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1A, Socrates and Charmides on Sôphrosunê ; Back from War (153a-153d) ; Beautiful Charmides (154a-155e) ; Zalmoxian Medicine and Looking within Charmides (155e-159a) ; Charmides's First Definition ; A Sort of Quietness (159b-160d) ; Charmides's Second Definition ; A Sense of Shame (160d-161a) ; Charmides's Final Definition ; Doing One's Own Things (161b-162c)
- Part 1B, Thumos in the Republic and the Symposium. The Psychology of Thumos (Republic 4.437a-441c) ; The Psychogenesis of Erôs: Aristophanes's Critique of Love of One's Own Things (Symposium 189c-193d) ; The Thumotic Erôs of Charmides
- Part 2A, Socrates and Critias on Sôphrosunê. Ugly Critias : Sôphrosunê as Doing One's Own Things (Part 2: 162c-163c) ; Sôphrosunê as Self-Knowledge(163d-165b) ; The Intentionality of Critian Self- Knowledge (165b-166c) ; Socrates's Addition ; Knowledge of What One Knows and Does Not Know (166c-166e) ; Is Knowledge of Knowledge Possible? (167a-169c) ; Is Knowledge of Knowledge Beneficial? (169d-173a) ; Socrates's Beautiful Dream? (173a-174b) ; Sôphrosunê as Knowledge of Good and Bad (174b-175a)
- Part 2B, Thumos and Tyranny in Republic VIII-IX. The Psychogenesis of Thumos and the Decay into the Tyrannical Regime (Republic VIII) ; The Psychogenesis of Thumos Part 2: The Decay of the Tyrant (Republic IX) ; Critias the Tyrant
- Part 3A, The Ending of the Dialogue and Socratic Sôphrosunê. Back to War : Ugly Critias and Charmides (175a-176d) ; A Return to the Smaller Benefit of Sôphrosunê
- Part 3B, Thauma and Sôphrosunê in the Republic and Symposium. The Theoros Returns (Republic 327a-328b and Symposium 172a-174a) ; Erôs Is a Lack: Socrates Questioning Agathon (Symposium 199c-201e) ; Erôs Is Between ; Diotima Questioning Socrates (Symposium 201e-203a) ; Diotima's Psychogenesis of Erôs (Symposium 203a-204d) ; The Good of Erôs (Symposium 204c-206b) ; Diotima's Ascent (Symposium 210a-212a) ; Beautiful Socrates and the Connection between Sôphrosunê and Wonder.