Plato's Charmides

Name: Plato's Charmides
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009308199
Price: 16000 KES
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ISBN: 9781009308199

by Raphael Woolf

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato

ISBN-10 100930819X

ISBN-13 9781009308199

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 10th, 2023

Print length 282 Pages

Weight 558 grams

Dimensions 15.90 x 23.60 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Ancient Greece Ancient, classical and medieval texts Classical texts Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael Woolf presents a compelling and unified reading of the work as a whole.

Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of drama and argument. Raphael Woolf offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements that pays close attention to its complex and layered structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato. He thus aims to present a compelling and unified interpretation of the dialogue as a whole. The book mounts a strong case for the formal separation of Plato the author from his character Socrates, and for the Charmides as a Platonic defence of the written text as a medium for philosophical reflection. It lays greater emphasis than other readings on the centrality of eros to an understanding of Socratic procedure in the Charmides, and on how the dialogue's erotic and medical motifs work together. The book's critical engagement with the dialogue allows a worked-out account to be given of how temperance, the central object of enquiry in the work, is to be conceived.

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