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Plato's Laws : Force and Truth in Politics /

"Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sanday, Eric, Recco, Gregory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Synopses. Reading the Laws as a whole horizon, vision, and structure / Mitchell Miller
  • [Eros] and the laws in historical context / Mark Munn.
  • Readings. The long and winding road: impediments to inquiry in book 1 of the Laws / Eric Salem
  • Education in Plato's laws / John Russon
  • On beginning after the beginning / John Sallis
  • It is difficult for a city with good laws to come into existence: on book 4 / Michael P. Zuckert
  • "He saw the cities and he knew the minds of many men": Landscape and character in the Odyssey and the Laws / Patricia Fagan
  • On the human and the divine: reading the prelude in Plato's Laws 5 / Robert Metcalf
  • Being true to equality: human allotment and the judgement of Zeus / Gregory Recco
  • The "Serious play" of book 7 of Plato's Laws / David Roochnik
  • No country for young men: Eros as outlaw in Plato's Laws / Francisco J. Gonzalez
  • On the implications of human mortality: legislation, education, and philosophy in book 9 of Plato's Laws / Catherine Zuckert
  • "A soul superlatively natural": psychic excess in Laws 10 / Sara Brill
  • Property and impiety in Plato's Laws: books 11 and 12 / Eric Sanday.