Plato

Laws

By: Plato, Malcolm Schofield (Editor), Tom Griffith (Translator)

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Hardcover | 8 September 2016 | Edition Number 1

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504 Pages

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Plato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. It offers sustained reflection on the enterprise of legislation, and on its role in the social and religious regulation of society in all its aspects. Many of its ideas were drawn upon by later political thinkers, from Aristotle and Cicero to Thomas More and Montesquieu. This book presents the first translation of the complete text of the Laws for thirty-five years, in Tom Griffith's readable and reliable English. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of Greek philosophy, introduces the main themes and characteristics of the work, as well as supplying authoritative notes on the structure and detail of Plato's argument, together with a guide to further reading. The book will be a key resource for scholars and graduate and undergraduate students of Greek philosophy and of the history of political thought.

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This text is perfect for political theory or intellectual history courses at any post-secondary level; nor would it be irrelevant for a philosophy class with supplementary discussion or reading. The translation is both fully pleasurable to read and true to Plato s vernacular and dramatic intentions; the introduction is clear-eyed, smart, free of dogma, and non-didactic; and the format and apparatus provide every kind of help to be hoped for from a non-commentary. It is refreshingly oriented away from establishing or asserting Plato s views about politics, justice, democracy, or some factitious version of rhetoric. The combination of three texts makes particular pedagogical sense, and for such a combination this edition wins out over alternative competing versions. Griffith translates the conversations vividly and brilliantly, in a colloquial but elegant English, full of sensitivity to Socrates modulation of rapport with his interlocutors. --Christopher Moore, The University of Texas at Austin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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