{"product_id":"9780809317455","title":"On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's Laches","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter T. Schmid offers the first original interpretation of the \u003ci\u003eLaches \u003c\/i\u003esince Hermann Bonitz in the nineteenth century in the only full-length commentary on the \u003ci\u003eLaches \u003c\/i\u003eavailable in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchmid 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 \u003ci\u003eLaches; \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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 \u003ci\u003eLaches \u003c\/i\u003efills an important niche in Plato’s moral theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031081271536,"sku":"9780809317455","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809317455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}