Laches or Courage: A Socratic Dialogue

A Socratic Dialogue: Laches or Courage by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Laches is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept of courage. Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education, as often happens with the sons of great men, has been neglected; and they ar...