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On the nature of temperance as a virtue,
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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In this dialogue, Socrates seeks to discover the true nature of virtue by trying to define a single virtue, namely temperance. The young philosopher Charmides, whose beauty initially overwhelms Socrates, first says that temperance consists of doing things in an orderly and quiet way; when Socrates points out the inadequacy of such a definition, Charmides says that temperance is a form of modesty. When Socrates proves to him that modesty can be both good and bad, he retreats and refers to someone else's notion that temperance consists of minding one's own business. Critias then jumps into the fray to defend this third position; once he is put on the defensive, he falls back on two alternate definitions--first, that temperance consists of doing good things, and then that temperance is equivalent to knowing oneself. In the end, no satisfactory definition of temperance is arrived at, although one is left with the impression that temperance has much to do with the knowledge of good and evil.
Charmides is a rather short dialogue, but I found it to be somewhat hard to follow as it sometimes broke down into wild abstractions. I think it helps to read this dialogue together with Laches because both attempt to do the same thing - define a single virtue (courage in the case of Laches, temperance in the case of Charmides). There's a very good single edition of both dialogues translated by Rosamond Kent Sprague featuring a lot of very helpful supporting material.
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- Apology of Socrates (Cambridge Elementary Classics: Greek) by Plato on page 3, and page 5
- South Carolina (America the Beautiful) by Deborah Kent on page 2, and page 11
- Hippias majeur by Platon on page 9
- A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 4, Plato: The Man and his Dialogues: Earlier Period (Plato - The Man & His Dialogues - Earlier Period) by W. K. C. Guthrie on page 9
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 7
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