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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. This book proposes a new paradigm for the
interpretation of Plato's Laches. In fact, it constitutes the first
systematic attempt to study the dialogue in light of the idea that
its composition could well have formed part of Plato's overall plan
to establish a well-defined and rigorous justification of the life
of philosophical inquiry The book will be of key interest to
classicists, philosophers, and intellectual historians, but will
also appeal to students or anyone interested in ancient Greek
philosophy.
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