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Plato's 'Laws' Christopher Bobonich (Professor, Stanford University, California)

Plato's 'Laws' By Christopher Bobonich (Professor, Stanford University, California)

Summary

This volume provides essays on the Laws, Plato's last dialogue and major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. The essays cover a wide range of topics in the Laws, including political and ethical philosophy, psychology, theology and aesthetics. It will interest philosophers, classicists and political theorists.

Plato's 'Laws' Summary

Plato's 'Laws': A Critical Guide by Christopher Bobonich (Professor, Stanford University, California)

Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, the essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.

Plato's 'Laws' Reviews

...The quality and insight of the contributions are very high, and the range of addressed themes very broad.... --Diego De Brasi, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
...a good paper on Plato's moral psychology.... articulate and carefully reasoned work on the Timaeus is attributed to the Laws... --Philosophy in Review, John Mouracade, University of Alaska Anchorage

About Christopher Bobonich (Professor, Stanford University, California)

Christopher Bobonich is Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of Plato's Utopia Recast (2002) and of a number of articles on the Laws and other aspects of Greek ethical and political theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction Christopher Bobonich; 1. The Laws' two projects Malcolm Schofield; 2. The relationship of the Laws to other dialogues: a proposal Christopher Rowe; 3. Ordinary virtue from the Phaedo to the Laws Richard Kraut; 4. Virtue and law in Plato Julia Annas; 5. Morality as law and morality in the Laws Terence Irwin; 6. Puppets on strings: moral psychology in Laws I and II Dorothea Frede; 7. Psychology and the inculcation of virtue in Plato's Laws Rachana Kamtekar; 8. Images of irrationality Christopher Bobonich; 9. Family and the question of women in the Laws Thanassis Samaras; 10. The theology of the Laws Robert Mayhew; 11. Plato's 'truest tragedy' (Laws VII, 817a-d) Andre Laks; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781107658684
9781107658684
1107658683
Plato's 'Laws': A Critical Guide by Christopher Bobonich (Professor, Stanford University, California)
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Cambridge University Press
2013-05-30
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