{"product_id":"platos-politics-of-passion-1767128421434","title":"Plato's Politics of Passion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, and the beautiful.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by the question \"What is Socratic self-knowledge,\" this study begins with Plato's \u003ci\u003eCharmides \u003c\/i\u003ebecause it is within this work, more than any other, that the \u003ci\u003eutility\u003c\/i\u003e of self-knowledge becomes the predominant theme. In this dialogue, Socrates explores the possibility of the very culmination of his philosophical investigations—knowledge of ignorance. This happens through an investigation of the perplexing concept, \u003ci\u003esôphrosunê\u003c\/i\u003e. Alan Pichanick's approach offers a new perspective upon the perplexing exploration of \u003ci\u003esôphrosunê\u003c\/i\u003e in the\u003ci\u003e Charmides \u003c\/i\u003eby placing much greater emphasis on the neglected \"erotic setting\" in the dramatic introduction and argues that our reading of the rest of the dialogue should be done in light of this dramatic setting. The erotic setting of the \u003ci\u003eCharmides \u003c\/i\u003ecombined with the discussion of philosophical wonder in the \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e and tyrannical \u003ci\u003eerôs\u003c\/i\u003e in the \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e gives guidance about how to think about the potential connection between Socratic self-knowledge and knowledge of the good and also shows why the characters of Charmides and Critias fail to come to such knowledge. Here we have the Platonic diagnosis of the tyrant, whose soul never wonders at anything beyond itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Pichanick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51521367408932,"sku":"9798855803914","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_8916fa0c-8529-436b-93ab-0eb4efcc1c5c.jpg?v=1767129061","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/platos-politics-of-passion-1767128421434","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}