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This paper examines the importance of self-control or enkrateia for philosophic virtue through an analysis of Xenophon's Memorabilia. It considers especially the question of why self-control should be necessary in the philosophic life if, as Socrates argues, virtue is knowledge and knowledge is necessarily efficacious in action. It closes with a discussion of the ways in which self-control may be particularly important for facing our mortality and living clear-sightedly in the light of it. |
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| Pangle, Lorraine. "Virtue and Self-Control in Socratic Political Philosophy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66327_index.html> |
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| Pangle, L. S. , 2002-08-28 "Virtue and Self-Control in Socratic Political Philosophy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66327_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper examines the importance of self-control or enkrateia for philosophic virtue through an analysis of Xenophon's Memorabilia. It considers especially the question of why self-control should be necessary in the philosophic life if, as Socrates argues, virtue is knowledge and knowledge is necessarily efficacious in action. It closes with a discussion of the ways in which self-control may be particularly important for facing our mortality and living clear-sightedly in the light of it. |
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| 1 Virtue and SelfControl in Socratic Political Philosophy Lorraine Smith Pangle University of Toronto Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Boston MA AugustSeptember 2002 This paper examines the importance of selfcontrol or ejgkrateiva for philosophic virtue through an analysis of Xenophon's Memorabilia. It considers especially the question of why selfcontrol should be necessary in the philosophic life if as Socrates argues virtue is knowledge and knowledge is necessarily efficacious in action. It |
| growing insipid? Or is the pleasure we take in progress only a second best to the fully developed capacities and complete understanding that would satisfy us most? 11 On the other hand Xenophon does not present the unattractiveness of life in decline as in itself sufficient reason to end one's life. He indicates at 4.8.1 that Socrates was also moved by the thought of the fame he would win which he no doubt sought mainly for the sake |
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