SÓKRATOVSKÁ THERAPEIA: PLATÓNOV CHARMIDÉS 153A-158D1

• Authors: Vladislav Suvák

Title variants

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Socratic Therapeia: Platoʼs Charmides 153a-158d

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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A therapeutic approach to reading the Socratic literature of the 4th century B.C. is based on the assumption that Socrates appears in Socratic dialogues not only as a persistent investigator or as a paradigm of ethical behaviour, but also as a therapist. Socrates cures the souls of his loved companions. Therapeia in Plato’s Charmides is a mask which Socrates deploys to force the young Charmides to examine the excellence (aretê). At the same time therapeia is a metaphor for Socratic dialogue as an art of curing through speeches (logoi). Reading the prologue 153a-158d of Charmides as a dramatic genre the paper tries to outline the possible meaning of Socratic “speech therapy” in the context of a profound examination of excellence (aretê) as the care for the self and the others.

Keywords

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PLATO; CHARMIDE; SOCRATIC DIALOGUE; SOCRATES; THERAPEIA

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 357 – 368

Contributors

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Vladislav Suvák

• Inštitút filozofie, Filozofická fakulta PU, Prešov, Slovak Republic