Profound Ignorance
Plato's Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom
Returning from the battle of Potidaea, Socrates reenters the city only to find it changed, with new leadership in the making. Socrates assumes the mask of physician in order to diagnose the city's condition in the persons of the young and charismatic Charmides and his ambitious and formidable guardian Critias. Beneath the cloak of their self-presentations, Doctor Socrates discovers a profound and communicable disease: their incipient tyranny, the greatest sickness of the soul. He thereby is able to foresee their future and their role in the oligarchy (The Thirty Tyrants) that overthrows the democracy at the end of the Peloponnesian War. The u…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-0178-1
- EAN: 9781498501781
- Produktnummer: 23282778
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 399 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 399
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