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Plato's Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality
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Interprets Plato's Charmides as a microcosm of Socratic philosophy that presents Plato's vision of the life of critical reason and of its uneasy relation to political life in the ancient city.
In this book, W. Thomas Schmid demonstrates that the Charmides-a platonic dialogue seldom referenced in contemporary studies-is a microcosm of Socratic philosophy. He explores the treatment of the Socratic dialectic, the relation between it and the Socratic notion of self-knowledge, the Socratic ideal ...