Understanding Plato's Charmides: Visual First-Read Edition

Phil Guides — Understanding Plato's Charmides Visual First-Read Edition

This is a tutorial, not a retelling. Plato's Charmides is a masterpiece of one question: what is the inner order we praise when we call someone temperate — and can a stack of knowledges replace knowledge of the good?

You will watch five names fail on purpose: a manner, a feeling, a civic slogan, a lucky good deed, and a science whose only object is science. Each failure is a piece of knowledge you can use.

Read the plates first. They carry the thoughts. The notes teach them. If a figure and a note disagree, reread both.

This edition includes: - Original study notes for each chapter - Original diagrams that map arguments, characters, and structure - Original charts summarizing themes and comparisons

Contents How to Read Charmides — What this masterpiece is for Look at the Soul First — Beauty is not yet inner order The Part Is Never Well Without the Whole — Why a copied cure is not a treatment of the soul Not Quietness — A manner is not an excellence A Sometimes-Good Is Not the Virtue — Shame, slogans, and the riddle of 'one's own' Know Thyself — A good result is not yet a virtue, and a greeting is not a tip A Science of Science — Knowing that you know is not knowing what Expertise Without the Good — A city of true arts still would not know how to live What You Now Know — The ladder, the last turn, and how to go on

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