In Platons Dialog Laches erörtert Sokrates die Frage, was Tapferkeit sei.

Laches is one of Plato´s early dialogues and part of a series of dialogues in which Socrates discusses the requirements for a successful life. Here, Socrates converses with two important Athenian generals, Laches and Nikias, in search of the answer to the question: What is the essence of courage? Jörg Hardy has written an exhaustive commentary on this work and puts this dialogue in the context of Plato´s complete works, paying particular attention to the historical background and discussing the individual sections in great detail.

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Hardy ist Professorial Fellow an der Russian Christian Academy for Humanities, St. Petersburg.

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Laches is one of Plato s early dialogues and part of a series of dialogues in which Socrates discusses the requirements for a successful life. Here, Socrates converses with two important Athenian generals, Laches and Nikias, in search of the answer to the question: What is the essence of courage? Jörg Hardy has written an exhaustive commentary on this work and puts this dialogue in the context of Plato s complete works, paying particular attention to the historical background and discussing the individual sections in great detail.