Laws
Plato · English
Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue, written in the final years before his death in 347 BC.
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Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue, written in the final years before his death in 347 BC. On a walk in Crete, an unnamed Athenian Stranger, the Cretan Cleinias, and the Spartan Megillus discuss the purpose of law and then draft a complete legal code for a new Cretan colony. Across twelve books they treat education, music and drinking customs, the origins of states, marriage and property, magistrates, criminal law, and religion, including an extended argument for the existence of the gods in Book X. This edition is Benjamin Jowett's translation, preceded by his introduction and book-by-book analysis.
Laws
Plato · English
Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue, written in the final years before his death in 347 BC.
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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
Pagera Editor's Note
Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue, written in the final years before his death in 347 BC. On a walk in Crete, an unnamed Athenian Stranger, the Cretan Cleinias, and the Spartan Megillus discuss the purpose of law and then draft a complete legal code for a new Cretan colony. Across twelve books they treat education, music and drinking customs, the origins of states, marriage and property, magistrates, criminal law, and religion, including an extended argument for the existence of the gods in Book X. This edition is Benjamin Jowett's translation, preceded by his introduction and book-by-book analysis.
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