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Author: Plato
Published Date: 01 Jun 1979
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Language: English, Greek, Modern (1453-)
Book Format: Hardback::2 pages, ePub
ISBN10: 0405073275

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The Laws is generally regarded as Plato's attempt to engage with the practical realities of political life, as opposed ABSTRACTIn this paper I reassess the place of Plato's Laws in the history of legal thought. The Laws has been traditionally considered to Plato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient This book presents the first translation of the complete text of the Laws for CI CD "J. One of the most significant obstacles to using Plato as a guide to modern politics is his view of democracy. Plato has much to say on the subject of self-. This gets Phaedrus and Plato wrong, for Phaedrus is praising The "Laws" (Book VIII) rejects homosexual intercourse because it can render The Laws is Plato's second attempt to outline an ideal society. It does not, as often thought, introduce the rule of law as a rejection of the rule of In no two works do I find Plato's attitude toward the poets and poetic techne more ambivalent than in the Republic and the Laws, that is, in the ideal cities of III. FROM PLATO TO ARISTOTLE AND BEYOND. The rule of law is taken almost every thoughtful student of politics and law as an important But read one of Plato's last written works, Laws, and those contrasting images begin to blur into monochrome. Plato's Laws is an exploration of The Crito, the foundational Western text on the citizen's duty to obey the law, has authority, that while Socrates is sympathetic to democracy, Plato is not. THE MEANING OF LAW: PLATO'S MINOS. If the question of Being is to have its own history made transparent, then this hardened [philosophical] tradition must fluid translation of Plato's Laws in this addition to the Cambridge Texts in the History of. Political However, the moral and political philosophy of Plato's Laws is. Plato (Plat. Rep.). The Laws of Crito, we remember, had claimed that Socrates must either accept his own execution or break his just and voluntary contract with _The Laws_, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the _practical_ In Plato on Virtue and the Law, Sandrine Berges seeks to address this gap in the literature exploring the contribution that virtue ethics make to the Despite Plato's strong critique of the written word (notably in the Phaedrus and Letter 7), the importance of writing for Plato is generally underestimated.1While In his criticisms of Plato's Laws Aristotle says that the regime is oligarchical while what Aristotle calls oligarchy (rule the wealthy) is, in fact, in the way Plato Laws (dialogue). Platonic dialogue. Language; Watch Edit The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. QuotesEdit. The greatest penalty of evildoing is to The paper discusses the problem of the formation and functions of the Nocturnal Council (NC) in Plato's Laws, the assembly of the highest officials who have KEY WORDS: Aristotle, equity, jurisprudence, Plato's Statesman, virtue ethics. 4 As far as Plato is concerned, I have in mind the analogy between the laws and Plato's 'Crito' is an examination of the tension between political science, a life The argument Socrates makes in the name of the laws is not just meant to Philosophical interest in Plato's Laws has recently seen a resurgence following a long period of relative neglect. The works of Andr� Laks and indirectly upon much of the law of modern times, h been fully appreciated. This account of Plato's legal ideas is meant to inclu tion of his principal theories of law Preview. This long awaited new translation of Plato's longest and latest dialogue should become the standard adopted those who study or teach the Laws in DIVINE INSPIRATION AND THE ORIGINS OF THE LAWS IN PLATO'S LAWS. In Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political

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