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  • Chapter 5 - The Art of Self-Realisation

  • Raphael Woolf, King's College London
  • Book:
    Plato's <i>Charmides</i>
    Published online:
    20 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 208-252

  • Summary

    This chapter develops in detail a conception of temperance, based on a critical engagement with the dialogue’s resources, which I dub temperance as self-realisation. I explore how this conception is modelled in the dialogue, with particular reference to Socrates’ own procedure as depicted therein. The model enables us to address questions of Socrates’ own relation to temperance, and of how temperance can be regarded as of benefit on this conception. Emphasis is placed on the exercise of temperance as a continuous process and to that extent on self-realisation as something that is necessarily imperfectible. However, it is argued that this makes sense both of the status of temperance as a branch of practical knowledge and of its ability to characterise a whole life.