previous next

[306b] that courage1 is one part of virtue.

Younger Socrates
Certainly.

Stranger
And, of course, that self-restraint is different from courage, but is also a part of virtue of which courage is a part.

Younger Socrates
Yes.

Stranger
Now I must venture to utter a strange doctrine about them.

Younger Socrates
What is it?

Stranger
That, in a way, they are in a condition of great hostility and opposition to each other in many beings.

Younger Socrates
What do you mean?

Stranger
Something quite unusual; for, you know, all the parts of virtue


1 The word ἀνδρεία has a much wider meaning than the English “courage.” Like the Latin “virtus,” it embraces all qualities which are desirable in a perfect man, especially the more active and positive virtues. When applied to one particular kind of virtue it is applied to courage, but throughout this discussion it is used in the wider sense, for which there is no single English equivalent.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

load focus Greek (1903)
hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: