In Classical Greek thought, some words pointing to traditional values before they became current as philosophical concepts, gained in size over time and attained a multidimensional appearance. Many concepts in Greek thought settled in their final positions as a result of a head-to-head contest with different prospective concepts in an environment of “competition” (agōn). In this process, they separated their way with their fellow concepts when the time came and settled in their dominant position in Classical Greek thought as the basic “virtues” (aretai) that the Greek people should have. As a result of this process, it was discussed even in Antiquity as one of the main problems of Classical Greek thought, exactly which virtue of sōphrosynē, the control of pleasures appealing to the senses, what kind of harmony as the germination ground of wisdom. For this reason, the fact that sōphrosynē's virtue expressed in different contexts is appropriately met creates a problem of ambiguity regarding the history of thought and living culture rather than a translation problem. In this article, it is stated that by following sōphrosynē in the historical process, notions with a wide range of references such as it cannot be understood from a single context, that we need a holistic view over contexts to understand such notions, but that this follow-up is specifically applied to Plato's Charmides to demonstrate that it will enable us to comprehend a skeleton of conceptualization strategies on the way to refine the philosophical identity of it.