Plato's "Laws" : the discovery of being

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Label

Plato's "Laws" : the discovery of being

Title remainder

the discovery of being

Statement of responsibility

Seth Benardete

Creator

• Benardete, Seth

Subject

• Ontology -- History
• Plato
• Plato -- Knowledge | Ontology

Language

eng

Summary

"The Laws was Plato's last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. An abstract ideal not intended for any actual community, the Laws seems to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. With this book, Seth Benardete offers an insightful analysis of and commentary on this rich and complex dialogue. Each chapter corresponds to one of the twelve books of the Laws, illuminating the major themes and arguments, among them the difference between the atemporal structure of the good and the temporal structure of the law; how experience deviates from the law; the relation between justice and moderation in light of theology and the soul; the relation of administrative structure to the city; and criminal law and the assumptions it must make about the structure of the soul. As he explicates the major themes and arguments of the dialogue, Benardete also shows how these strands of argument are interwoven throughout the Laws and then sets them against the quite different arguments on the same themes found in The Republic and The Statesman."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

321/.07

Index

index present

LC call number

B398.O5

LC item number

B46 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography