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9780521884631

Plato's 'Laws': A Critical Guide

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521884631

  • ISBN10:

    0521884632

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-12-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade, and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, these essays cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Laws' two projectsp. 12
The relationship of the Laws to other dialogues: A proposalp. 29
Ordinary virtue from the Phaedo to the Lawsp. 51
Virtue and law in Platop. 71
Morality as law and morality in the Lawsp. 92
Puppets on strings: Moral psychology in Laws Books 1 and 2p. 108
Psychology and the inculcation of virtue in Plato's Lawsp. 127
Images of irrationalityp. 149
Family and the question of women in the Lawsp. 172
The theology of the Lawsp. 197
Plato's 'truest tragedy': Laws Book 7, 817a-dp. 217
Bibliographyp. 232
Indexp. 242
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