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Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term "self-discipline," is little remembered today, but during the generations around Socrates it was the object of significant debate--about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. Christopher Moore show that classical Greek thinkers judged it more fundamental than mere desire-management or temperance: they saw it as the virtue of agency, the capacity to be a person truly responsible for his or her actions. This was the capacity to be guided by what's best, and to count, finally, as a coherent and unified "self."
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- Selected Abbreviations and Editions
- 1. Debating a virtue
- 2. The early history of sôphrosunê
- 3. Heraclitus, self-knowledge, and the greatest virtue
- 4. Tragic sôphrosunê in two plays of Euripides
- 5. The late fifth century
- 6. The figure of Socrates
- 7. Xenophon on sôphrosunê and enkrateia
- 8. Plato 1 - sôphrosunê and the capacity for action
- 9. Plato 2 - two formulations of agency
- 10. Plato 3 - sôphrosunê with wisdom in two late dialogues
- 11. Aristotle and the later fourth century
- 12. Pythagorean sôphrosunê
- 13. Sôphrosunê for later Greek women
- Epilogue: Translating an ancient virtue for modern times
- Epigraphical Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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Christopher Moore is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at The Pennsylvania State University. He has written widely on classical Greek philosophy, intellectual history, and ethical language, and has edited several volumes on the reception of Socrates. He is the author of Socrates and Self-Knowledge and Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline.
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Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term
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Moore has produced a thought-provoking exploration of sophrosune, and I recommend it to anyone interested in questions of virtue, moral philosophy, or the intellectual history of ancient Greece.
