Plato's Politics of Passion

Plato's Politics of PassionAn original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self knowledge, and the beautiful. Guided by the question "What is Socratic self knowledge," this study begins with Plato's Charmides because it is within this work, more than any other, that the utility of self knowledge becomes the predominant theme. In this dialogue, Socrates explores the possibility of the very culmination of his philosophical investigationsknowledge

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