The virtue of agency : Sôphrosunê and self-constitution in classical Greece /
Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term 'self-discipline,' is little remembered today, but during the generations around Socrates it was the object of significant debate - about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. Ch...
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Oxford University Press,
2023.
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Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term 'self-discipline,' is little remembered today, but during the generations around Socrates it was the object of significant debate - about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. Christopher Moore shows that classical Greek thinkers judged it more fundamental than mere desire-management or temperance: they saw it as the virtue of agency, the capacity to be a person truly responsible for his or her actions. This was the capacity to be guided by what's best, and to count, finally, as a coherent and unified 'self.'
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0-19-766353-2
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Print version: The Virtue of Agency
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