The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197663509,0197663508,9780197663523, 0197663524

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• ISBN-10: 0197663524
• ISBN-13: 9780197663523
• Author: Christopher Moore

Sôphrosunê (“self-discipline”) is the often-forgotten sibling of justice, wisdom, courage, and piety in discussions of canonical Greek virtues. Christopher Moore shows that during the classical period it was the object of significant debate–about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. By interpreting sôphrosunê as a commitment to norm-following, we see that these pointed discussions of the virtue, previously ignored as parodic moralizing or expressions of political propaganda, are in fact concerned with the ideal of human agency. These discussions query the way we become fully responsible for our actions. Greek thinking about sôphrosunê becomes thinking about self-constitution, our crucial capacity to act on the general reasons that we come to identify with as our own.

Table contents:

1. Debating a Virtue
2. The Early History of Sôphrosunê
3. Heraclitus, Self-Knowledge, and the Greatest Virtue
4. Tragic Sôphrosunê in Two Plays of Euripides
5. The Late Fifth Century
6. The Figure of Socrates
7. Xenophon on Sôphrosunê and Enkrateia
8. Plato 1—Sôphrosunê and the Capacity for Action
9. Plato 2—Two Formulations of Agency
10. Plato 3—Sôphrosunê with Wisdom in Two Late Dialogues
11. Aristotle and the Later Fourth Century
12. Pythagorean Sôphrosunê
13. Sôphrosunê for Later Greek Women

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