The virtue of agency: sôphrosunê and self-constitution in classical Greece
"Among the cardinal virtues of classical Greece - wisdom, courage, justice, piety, and sôphrosunê - sôphrosunê is the least understood or valued. But, as this book shows - studying the vigorous and wide-ranging debates about the virtue, across fifth- and fourth-century poetry, prose, and philos...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Among the cardinal virtues of classical Greece - wisdom, courage, justice, piety, and sôphrosunê - sôphrosunê is the least understood or valued. 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 simply reacts to external or internal proddings. Thus sôphrosunê is the virtue of agency. The clearest evidence for the nature of and significance granted to sôphrosunê 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 the less familiar Pythagorean assessments"-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments ix Selected Abbreviations and Editions xi 1. Debating a Virtue 1 2. The Early History of Söphrosune 27 3. Heraclitus, Self-Knowledge, and the Greatest Virtue 54 4. Tragic Söphrosune in Two Plays of Euripides 75 5. The Late Fifth Century 100 6. The Figure of Socrates 133 7. Xenophon on Sophrosune and Enkrateia 157 8. Plato 1—Söphrosune and the Capacity for Action 185 9. Plato 2—Two Formulations of Agency 212 10. Plato 3—Sophrosune with Wisdom in Two Late Dialogues 236 11. Aristotle and the Later Fourth Century 257 12. Pythagorean Sophrosune 281 13. Söphrosune for Later Greek Women 307 Epilogue: Translating an Ancient Virtuefor Modern Times 335 Epigraphical Appendix 341 Bibliography 347 Index Locorum 373 Index 383
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Selected Abbreviations and Editions xi 1. Debating a Virtue 1 2. The Early History of Söphrosune 27 3. Heraclitus, Self-Knowledge, and the Greatest Virtue 54 4. Tragic Söphrosune in Two Plays of Euripides 75 5. The Late Fifth Century 100 6. The Figure of Socrates 133 7. Xenophon on Sophrosune and Enkrateia 157 8. Plato 1—Söphrosune and the Capacity for Action 185 9. Plato 2—Two Formulations of Agency 212 10. Plato 3—Sophrosune with Wisdom in Two Late Dialogues 236 11. Aristotle and the Later Fourth Century 257 12. Pythagorean Sophrosune 281 13. Söphrosune for Later Greek Women 307 Epilogue: Translating an Ancient Virtuefor Modern Times 335 Epigraphical Appendix 341 Bibliography 347 Index Locorum 373 Index 383 |
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