Charmides

Name: Charmides
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Plato
ISBN: 9781787366237

Author: Plato

Narrator: Oliver Adams

Unabridged: 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 03/18/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Synopsis

"Charmides" is a dialogue written by Plato that delves into the nature of wisdom and self-knowledge. The conversation takes place between Socrates and Charmides, a young man renowned for his beauty and noble heritage. Socrates challenges Charmides' claim to possess self-control or temperance, arguing that true self-knowledge requires an examination of one's own nature. This leads to a discussion on the nature of wisdom and how it is cultivated through inquiry and self-examination, rather than being possessed as a physical object. Read in English, unabridged.

About Plato

Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer, and student of Socrates. Most of his works, which form some of the core foundations of Western philosophy, are written in the form of dialogues, in which Socrates often figures prominently. His best-known writings include the Republic, the Apology, the Symposium, Crito, and Statesman. Plato's work addresses such diverse themes as the nature of love, human knowledge and understanding, and the ideal form of government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on January 26, 2016

I'm just going to have to spell this out: the author is a pedophile. There's no reasonable doubt about it. Charmides, an early volume in the very popular Socrates series, is a particularly clear case. There's a kind of vague plot, but basically it's not much more a step-by-step manual in the art of s......more

Goodreads review by Greg on August 26, 2012

I dare say that what I am saying is nonsense, I replied; and yet if a man has any feeling of what is due to himself, he cannot let the thought which comes into his mind pass away unheeded and unexamined. Synopsis: Socrates, who elsewhere is described as quite ugly, is hanging out in a wrestling gym wh......more

Goodreads review by Manny on May 10, 2014

[A singles bar in Athens. CHARMIDES, CRITAS, SOCRATES and OSCAR WILDE] SOCRATES: ... Now consider again the nature of temperance. CHARMIDES: Of what? SOCRATES: It's an ancient Greek term that doesn't translate well into English. [Aside] Zeus, he's hot! CHARMIDES: Oh... right. SOCRATES: Well, if you poss......more

Goodreads review by Roy on March 20, 2018

This is one of the early inconclusive Socratic dialogues. Socrates, just come back from fighting in the Peloponnesian War, meets two of Plato’s relatives, Critias and Charmides. The latter of these is portrayed as a handsome youth, graceful of form and pure of mind. (Ironically enough, after the dis......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 26, 2022

Charmides, in real life, was a prominent Athenian who made some very bad choices and came to an unhappy end. In the chaos that followed Athens’ defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian Wars, he aligned himself with an oligarchy that came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants. The Tyrants established a brut......more