Socrates
Laches
Recorded oral teaching
Laches
Λάχης
Two fathers ask the generals Laches and Nicias whether their sons should learn to fight in armour; the conversation turns to what courage is. Laches, who fought beside Socrates at Delium, praises his conduct in the retreat. No definition survives scrutiny, and the dialogue ends in aporia, with the elders ready to go back to school.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.
Editions and translations
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English
Socrates
Laches
The Conscious LibraryLaches
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
Laques o del valor
The Conscious LibraryLaques o del valor
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 1 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Socrates
Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 37), 1981
Translation: J. Calonge Ruiz, E. Lledó Íñigo y C. García Gual
ISBN 9788424900816
Introducción general de Emilio Lledó.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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