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Charmides

Socrates

Just back from Potidaea, Socrates talks in the wrestling school with the young Charmides and his guardian Critias—both future members of the regime of the Thirty—about *sophrosyne*, temperance or soundness of mind. The definition as "knowing oneself" leads to the paradox of a knowledge of knowledge. It ends without agreement, with a bitter irony for readers who know the speakers' fate.

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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 · 24 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 13′
  2. 2Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 27′
  3. 3Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 31′
  4. 4Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 41′
  5. 5Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 52′
  6. 6Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 61′
  7. 7Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 71′
  8. 8Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 82′
  9. 9Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 92′
  10. 10Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 101′
  11. 11Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 113′
  12. 12Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 122′
  13. 13Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 131′
  14. 14Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 141′
  15. 15Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 151′
  16. 16Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 163′
  17. 17Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 172′
  18. 18Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 181′
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  22. 22Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 223′
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  24. 24Sócrates – Querefon – Critias – Carmides · 241′
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