The Platonic dialogue on this subject begins when two friends ask the title character whether they should have their sons instructed in "the art of fighting in armour"; that title character is the conservative Athenian general Laches.
In the Platonic dialogue on this topic, Socrates asks whether whether a pig has this characteristic. That dialogue on this topic ends in aporia after Socrates convinces another character that the definition he has provided of this characteristic is in fact a definition of all virtue. That dialogue on this topic is also the only one in which Nicias appears, and in that dialogue, Nicias defines this trait as "knowledge of the grounds of hope and fear", whereas the title character of the dialogue describes it as "a sort of endurance of the soul". This trait is the first virtue discussed at length in the Nichomachean Ethics, (*) in which Aristotle states that "death is the most terrible of all things, for it is the end" and differentiates this virtue from ignorance, experience, sanguinity and passion. Aristotle also gives Hector as an example of this virtue and argues that the Celts have an excess of it. The Platonic dialogue on this subject begins when two friends ask the title character whether they should have their sons instructed in "the art of fighting in armour"; that title character is the conservative Athenian general Laches. For 10 points, name this virtue which Aristotle described as a mean between rashness and cowardice.
In the Platonic dialogue on this topic, Socrates asks whether whether a pig has this characteristic.
courage [accept bravery; prompt on descriptive equivalents]