Plato's Second Republic : : An Essay on the Laws / / André Laks.
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 thorough reapp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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