The avatars of σωφροσύνη and their overcoming in the Phaedrus
Keywords:
modmoderation, cosmos, virtue, soulAbstract
The notion of sophrosyne refers in Plato to moderation in relation to moral life. It is possible to find in the dialogues, in particular in the Phaedrus, a unitary element in the notion of sophrosyne: the cosmos which appears as an ordering element. Thus all the aspects of virtue relative to sophrosyne, as goodness, regulation of excesses, regulation of the soul, prudence, mode of order and disposition (music) are brought into unity by the determining concept: the cosmos..
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