Inbal Cohen-Taber
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Wisdom and Beauty in Plato's Charmides

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Although wisdom and beauty are prized everywhere, in what exactly they consist is a matter of dispute that even has tragic political implications. As the traditional elites of fifth-century BCE Athens felt their social privileges being chipped away by democratic encroachments, they clung to their traditional belief that they--and they alone--were ""beautiful and good"" enough to rule. Plato's alternately comic and serious dialogue Charmides is set in this Athens and explores the nature of temperance (s¿phrosun¿: in eating, in drinking, in life in general). In this book,. Cohen-Taber uses the...