Sophrosyne

Temperantia (1872), by Edward Burne-Jones

Sophrosyne (Ancient Greek: σωφροσύνη) is an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to other qualities, such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum, and self-control. An adjectival form is "sophron".[1]

It is similar to the concepts of zhōngyōng (中庸) of Chinese Confucianism[2] and sattva (सत्त्व) of Indian thought.[3]

  1. ^ Euripides (1973) [428 BCE]. Hippolytos. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507290-7.
  2. ^ 林之满 萧枫, ed. (2014). 流光溢彩的世界古典史. Changsha: Green Apple Data Center. p. 237.
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