The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 1 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

The subject of the Charmides is Temperance or aaxfipoovvt], a peculiarly Greek notion, which may also be rendered Moderation1, Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without completely exhausting by all these terms the various associations of the word. It may be described as ' mens sana in corpore sano,' the harmony or due proportion of the higher and lower elements of human nature which ' makes a man his own master,' according to the definition of the Republic. In the accompanying translation the word has been rendered in different places either Temperance or Wisdom, as the connection seemed to require : for in the philosophy of Plato aaxppoavvr) still retains an intellectual element (as Socrates is also said to have identified u&fypoovvr) with a-o(pla: Xen. Mem. iii. 9, 4), and is not yet relegated to the sphere of moral virtue, as in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle (iii. 10). The beautiful youth, Charmides, who is also the most temperate of human beings, is asked by Socrates, 1 What

Table of Contents

CHARMIDES i; LYSIS 39; LACHES 71; PROTAGORAS 107; EUTHYDEMUS 181; ION 237; MENO 257; EUTHYPHRO 3°7; APOLOGY 335; CRITO 377; PHAEDO 397

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