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On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's Laches

by Walter T. Schmid

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
  • 16.2 x 24.3 x 2.6 cm

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Walter T. Schmid offers the first original interpretation of the Laches since Hermann Bonitz in the nineteenth century in the only full-length commentary on the Laches available in English.

Schmid divides the book into five main discussions: the historical background of the dialogue; the relation of form and content in a Platonic dialogue and specific structural and aesthetic features of the Laches; the first half of the dialogue, which introduces the characters and considers the theme of the education of young men; the inquiry with Laches, which examines the traditional Greek conception of military courage; and the inquiry with Nicias in which two nontraditional conceptions of courage are mooted, one closely associated with the sophistic movement in Athens, the other with Socrates himself. Furnishing a detailed paragraph-by-paragraph reading that traces Socrates' ongoing quest for virtue and wisdom--a wisdom founded in the action of a whole human life--Schmid conclusively shows how and why the Laches fills an important niche in Plato's moral theory.

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Southern Illinois University Press

  • Published

    July 1992

  • Weight

    604g

  • Dimensions

    16.2 x 24.3 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780809317455

  • ISBN-10

    0809317451

  • Eden Code

    4732559

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