laches review

Define “Courage.”  Go ahead.  Try.  Really.  What is Courage? I’d never given the matter much thought until I read Plato’s Laches, which is an extended discussion on the definition of Courage.   Reading the dialogue was easily more time spent thinking about the definition of courage than I had spent in the entire rest of my life until then.  Courage is just one of those things that you know it when you see it.  I … [Read more...] about Courage