Plato's Second Republic : An Essay on the Laws /

An argument for why Plato's Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Beyond the Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws, Plato's last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the Republic in historical relevance. Laks offers a tho...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Laks, Andre
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Plato. > Republic.
Republic (Plato)
Political science.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
Political science > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Editorial Note
  • 1 The Form of the Laws: An Overview
  • 2 Paradigms and Utopias
  • 3 Paradigm and Retreats
  • 4 What Is Human?
  • 5 The Multiplication of Goals
  • 6 Mixtures, Blends, and Other Metamorphoses
  • 7 Construing the Preambles
  • 8 A Rhetoric in the Making
  • 9 Two Exceptional Preambles
  • 10 Plato's Best Tragedy
  • In Retrospect
  • Appendix A On the Status of the Statesman
  • Appendix B On a Supposed Evolution of Plato's Psychology
  • Appendix C Aristotle and Posidonius on Plato's Preambles
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index
  • A note on the type

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