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Laws

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 543 pages

Laws is Plato's last dialogue, in which an Athenian stranger, Clinias, and Megillus discuss legislation and the organization of an ideal city. The work explores education, virtue, and practical laws for the city of Magnesia, offering insight into Plato's political thought. It is worth listening to for its fundamental questions about justice and society.

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Opening of the book

LAWS
By Plato
Translated By Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved (1)
by more than twenty citations of them in the writings of
Aristotle, who was residing at Athens during the last
twenty years of the life of Plato, and who, having left it
after his death (B.C. 347), returned thither twelve years
later (B.C. 335); (2) by the allusion of Isocrates
(Oratio
ad
Philippum
missa,
p.84:
To
men
tais

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