Charmides
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
1h 6m
13,136 words
en
Set on the day Socrates returns from the battle of Potidaea, the dialogue presses on a single concept: sōphrosynē — temperance, self-restraint, self-knowledge. Charmides and his guardian Critias offer six definitions in turn; each falls apart. A short early dialogue that quietly stages the central Platonic question of how virtue and knowledge relate.
