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Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry: A Companion to Plato's Laches

Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry: A Companion to Plato's Laches

Stefou, Konstantinos

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Philosophy

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030041875
ISBN13: 9783030041878
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 6 2018
Pages: 107
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato's Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence. It rekindles interest in this much-neglected dialogue by providing a fresh discussion of the major issues that arise from the text. Among these issues, pride of place is taken by the virtue of courage, for the definition of which Socrates is depicted as engaging in some long-winded dialectical exchange with his interlocutors. Yet, although there is no room for doubt that the Laches is Plato's most explicit treatment of courage, this dialogue ends in perplexity and is thus traditionally thought of as an unsuccessful attempt to define what courage is. The present study challenges this suggestion.

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