A Sage on the Stage: Socrates and Athenian Old Comedy

Bromberg, Jacques A.

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“…This Thrasymachean closed horos is treated as a thesis by his first commentators, Cleitophon (340a8, b8) and Polemarchus (twice in 340b1). Socrates, in turn, will treat the discussion on it in Book 1 as an introduction (prooimion) to further dialogue (357a2).52 On the "fondness of ancient audiences for comic mockery," seeBromberg 2018, 33. Journal of Ancient Philosophy ISSN 1981-9471 -FFLCH/USP www.revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga J. anc.…”

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Thrasymachus of Chalcedon on the Platonic stage

Zygmuntowicz

2019

J. anc. philos. (Engl. ed.)

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The conviction that Plato manipulated Thrasymachus’ views is today accepted by the scholarly opinion. Given the absence of testimonies regarding the political and moral views held by the historical Thrasymachus, the degree of this manipulation can be gauged only by assessing the degree of incoherence and ambiguity in the views of the Platonic Thrasymachus. This perspective, of necessity a self-referential one, is overcome by the hypothesis presented in the following article, namely, that Plato manipulates not as much the views of the historical Thrasymachus as the extremely concise and ambiguous thesis (that justice is “the advantage of the stronger”) which he has ascribed to him; and that the goal of this manipulation is to mock Thrasymachus’ style and rhetorical posture – both confirmed by testimonies outside the Platonic text – as ill suited to the philosophical reflection on the content of this thesis.

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Thrasymachus of Chalcedon on the Platonic stage

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The Virtue of Agency

Moore

2023

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Among the cardinal virtues of classical Greece—wisdom, courage, justice, piety, and sôphrosunê—sôphrosunê is now the least understood or esteemed. But, as this book shows—studying the vigorous and wide-ranging debates about the virtue across fifth- and fourth-century poetry, prose, and philosophy—many Greeks in fact judged it the preeminent virtue. They understood it to be the capacity to choose between one’s conflicting desires and to act only on those aiming at what one judges one’s authoritative or properly life-defining ends. This is the capacity to be a mature human: facing down one’s bodily and social promptings with discipline, identifying with one’s long-term goals or acknowledged norms over one’s evanescent impulses. This is what makes one count as an “agent”: someone who acts on her own principles rather than on external or internal proddings. Thus sôphrosunê is the virtue of agency. The clearest evidence for this is the disagreement found across ancient Greek literature over the term’s application and scope. This book starts by appraising remarks about sôphrosunê from the archaic and early Classical period in Homer, Theognis, Pindar, Aeschlyus, Heraclitus, and funerary inscriptions. Then it turns to later fifth-century exchanges in Euripides especially but also Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Critias, Antiphon, and Democritus. Socrates is a crucial figure for the study, as we see in the works of his associates Antisthenes, Xenophon, and particularly Plato. After several chapters on Plato, we turn to the radical innovations of Aristotle and some less familiar Pythagorean assessments.

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