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Charmides — Plato

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Charmides

Χαρμίδης

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

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

  • Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno — Plato

    Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno

    Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009

    Translation: Robin Waterfield

    ISBN 9780199555666

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

  • Laches and Charmides — Plato

    Laches and Charmides

    Hackett, 1992

    Translation: Rosamond Kent Sprague

    ISBN 9780872201347

  • Early Socratic Dialogues — Plato

    Early Socratic Dialogues

    Penguin Classics, 1988

    ISBN 9780140444476

  • Charmides

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 1; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • Carmides o de la sabiduría

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 1; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras

    Gredos, 1985

    ISBN 9788424900816

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 37 (1.ª ed. 1981); introducción general de Emilio Lledó

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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