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Although wisdom and beauty are prized everywhere, in what exactly they consist is a matter of dispute that even has tragic political implications. As the traditional elites of fifth-century BCE Athens felt their social privileges being chipped away by democratic...

  • Name : Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides
  • Vendor : Pickwick Publications
  • Type : Books
  • Manufacturing : 2024 / 07 / 30
  • Barcode : 9781666701777

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Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides
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Although wisdom and beauty are prized everywhere, in what exactly they consist is a matter of dispute that even has tragic political implications. As the traditional elites of fifth-century BCE Athens felt their social privileges being chipped away by democratic encroachments, they clung to their traditional belief that they--and they alone--were ""beautiful and good"" enough to rule. Plato's alternately comic and serious dialogue Charmides is set in this Athens and explores the nature of temperance (sōphrosunē in eating, in drinking, in life in general). In this book, . Cohen-Taber uses the dramatic structure of this dialogue to show how Socrates challenges the elitist views of his two interlocutors, revealing Plato's critiques of aristocrats' smug complacency about their supposed exclusive natural beauty and intellectual capacities (kalokagathia) that grant them the natural right to rule. Plato decided to write the dialogue because he saw this claim of superiority as continuously threatening to destabilize his polis. This leads Plato, Cohen-Taber argues, to suggest alternative, and more egalitarian, accounts of wisdom and beauty as the drama about sōphrosunē unfolds. These accounts are thoroughly moral, and therefore open to people from any economic class.

Author: Inbal Cohen-Taber
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 10/28/2022
Series: Foro Di Studi Avanzati #2
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9781666701777

About the Author
Inbal Cohen-Taber is an instructor and a Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She earned her PhD from the University of Haifa and taught at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology. Her previous work includes her novel approach to the reconstruction of the lengthy ancient Greek philosophical inscription of the Epicurean Diogenes of Oenoanda, presented in her article "The Lost Composition of Diogenes of Oenoanda."

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