#615: Temperance and Self-Knowledge

with Socrates and Augustine

“So if knowing oneself is temperance, none of these people is respect of his art.” On what basis does Socrates correlate temperance with self-knowledge in the Alcibiades? He offers no argument for the view: instead, it is a premise in a broader argument that farmers and craftsmen do not know themselves so much as they know the things about which their r…