Generalship
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
generalship · the general's art · general · the general's business · the management of troops · the whole art of generalship · war
in the texts
Laches
The highest military accomplishment, which Nicias claims a student is naturally drawn toward after mastering fighting in armor and troop command.
for everyone who has learnt how to fight in armor will desire to learn the accomplishment which comes next, the management of troops;
I am sure you yourselves will bear me out when I say that here generalship makes the best forecasts on the whole, and particularly of future results, and is the mistress rather than the servant of the seer’s art, because it knows better what is happening or about to happen in the operations of war;
Charmides
The military art of the general, cited among the crafts discussed in the dream and in the later test.
Hear then, I said, my dream, whether it has come through horn or through ivory.
For, Critias, if you choose to take away this science from the whole number of them, will medicine any the less give us health, or shoemaking give us shoes, or weaving provide clothes, or will the pilot’s art any the less prevent the loss of life at sea, or the general’s in war?
Cyropaedia
Military excellence, acknowledged but subordinated to kindness in Cyrus's ethical self-presentation.
asked Gobryas.
and now, I swear by the gods, you seem actually to excel even more in kindness than in generalship.
and what is more, I assure you that I take much more pleasure in showing forth my deeds of kindness than ever I did in my deeds of generalship.
Memorabilia
The technical art and duties of military command, examined throughout this window as something that must be learned rather than assumed, encompassing tactics, logistics, character, and the ability to secure obedience.
Don’t look down on business men, Nicomachides.
But then that is only a small part of generalship.
Your analogy is perfect, Socrates, said the youth;