Plato's Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality

Plato's Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of RationalityInterprets Plato's Charmides as a microcosm of Socratic philosophy that presents Plato's vision of the life of critical reason and of its uneasy relation to political life in the ancient city. In this book, W. Thomas Schmid demonstrates that the Charmides a platonic dialogue seldom referenced in contemporary studies is a microcosm of Socratic philosophy. He explores the treatment of the Socratic dialectic, the relation between it and the Socratic

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Explores the psychological aspects of Nietzsche's thought and his influence on psychological thinkers such as Freud

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The value of teaching meditation and teaching about meditation is discussed

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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions

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