Plato's Politics of Passion : Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic Self-Knowledge in the Charmides, Republic, and Symposium.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pichanick, Alan.

Series:

SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

An original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, and the beautiful.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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1A: Socrates and Charmides on Sôphrosunê

Chapter One Back from War (153a-153d)

Chapter Two Beautiful Charmides (154a-155e)

Chapter Three Zalmoxian Medicine and Looking within Charmides (155e-159a)

Chapter Four Charmides's First Definition - A Sort of Quietness (159b-160d)

Chapter Five Charmides's Second Definition - A Sense of Shame (160d-161a)

Chapter Six Charmides's Final Definition - Doing One's Own Things (161b-162c)

Part 1B: Thumos in the Republic and the Symposium

Chapter One The Psychology of Thumos (Republic4.437a-441c)

Chapter Two The Psychogenesis of Erôs: Aristophanes's Critique of Love of One's Own Things (Symposium 189c-193d)

Chapter Three The Thumotic Erôs of Charmides

Part 2A: Socrates and Critias on Sôphrosunê

Chapter One Ugly Critias: Sôphrosunê as Doing One's Own Things (Part 2: 162c-163c)

Chapter Two Sôphrosunê as Self-Knowledge(163d-165b)

Chapter Three The Intentionality of Critian Self- Knowledge (165b-166c)

Chapter Four Socrates's Addition - Knowledge of What One Knows and Does Not Know (166c-166e)

Chapter Five Is Knowledge of Knowledge Possible? (167a-169c)

A. Argument One (167a-168b)

B. Argument Two (168b-168e)

C. Some Great Man Is Needed

Chapter Six Is Knowledge of Knowledge Beneficial? (169d-173a)

A. Socrates's Initial Question (169d-170a)

B. Argument One (170a-170e)

C. Argument Two (170e-171c)

D. The Greater and Smaller Benefit of Sôphrosunê (171D-173A)

Chapter Seven Socrates's Beautiful Dream? (173a-174b)

Chapter Eight Sôphrosunê as Knowledge of Good and Bad (174b-175a)

Part 2B: Thumos and Tyranny in Republic VIII-IX

Chapter One The Psychogenesis of Thumos and the Decay into the Tyrannical Regime (Republic VIII).

Chapter Two The Psychogenesis of Thumos Part 2: The Decayof the Tyrant (Republic IX)

Chapter Three Critias the Tyrant

Part 3A: The Ending of the Dialogue and Socratic Sôphrosunê

Chapter One Back to War - Ugly Critias and Charmides (175a-176d)

Chapter Two A Return to the Smaller Benefit of Sôphrosunê

Part 3B: Thauma and Sôphrosunê in the Republic and Symposium

Chapter One The Theoros Returns (Republic 327a-328b and Symposium 172a-174a)

Chapter Two Erôs Is a Lack: Socrates Questioning Agathon (Symposium 199c-201e)

Chapter Three Erôs Is Between - Diotima Questioning Socrates (Symposium 201e-203a)

Chapter Four Diotima's Psychogenesis of Erôs (Symposium 203a-204d)

Chapter Five The Good of Erôs (Symposium 204c-206b)

Chapter Six Diotima's Ascent (Symposium 210a-212a)

Chapter Seven Beautiful Socrates and the Connection between Sôphrosunê and Wonder

Concluding Remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0392-1

OCLC:

1537944733