Charmides Or Temperance by Plato
A conversational inquiry in which Socrates questions a young noble about the nature of temperance or self-control, testing several proposed definitions—quietness, modesty, restraint, a kind of bodily harmony or obedience—and using medical and craftsman analogies to probe whether temperance is distinct from or identical with knowledge, self-knowledge, or the good of the soul; through careful refutation of each account the discussion clarifies the problems involved and the ties between wisdom and virtue but ends without a decisive, agreed definition.
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