On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's Laches - Couverture rigide

Schmid, Walter T; Plato

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0809317451 ISBN 13 : 9780809317455

Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Walter T. Schmid is professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southern Illinois University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809317451
• ISBN 13: 9780809317455
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 226
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• Personne responsable: non disponible