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Charmides

Plato

Just back from the battle of Potidaea, Socrates talks with the young Charmides — Plato's maternal uncle — and with Critias, his cousin, both future members of the Thirty. They seek what sophrosyne (temperance, soundness of mind) is and reach the idea of a knowledge of itself and of other knowledges, which proves problematic. The shadow of their later tyranny gives the dialogue a bitter irony.

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English

Translated by Benjamin Jowett · 18 chapters · 2 h reading

  1. 1Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions By B. Jowett, M.A.1′
  2. 2TO MY FORMER PUPILS1′
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.5′
  4. 4PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS.32′
  5. 5INTRODUCTION.10′
  6. 6CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 14′
  7. 7CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 28′
  8. 8CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 31′
  9. 9CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 42′
  10. 10CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 53′
  11. 11CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 65′
  12. 12CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 74′
  13. 13CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 82′
  14. 14CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 94′
  15. 15CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 103′
  16. 16CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 114′
  17. 17CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 124′
  18. 18CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE · 131′

Spanish

Translated by Patricio de Azcárate · 13 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1 · 13′
  2. 2 · 27′
  3. 3 · 32′
  4. 4 · 42′
  5. 5 · 52′
  6. 6 · 64′
  7. 7 · 75′
  8. 8 · 83′
  9. 9 · 94′
  10. 10 · 103′
  11. 11 · 115′
  12. 12 · 122′
  13. 13 · 133′
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