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The Laws (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Plato

 
9780140449846: The Laws (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140449841 ISBN 13: 9780140449846
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal state - from education, sport and religion to sexual behaviour, marriage and drinking parties. Plato sets out a plan for the day-to-day rule of Magnesia, administered by citizens and elected officials, with supreme power held by a Council. Although Plato's views that citizens should act in complete obedience to the law have been read as totalitarian, the Laws nonetheless constitutes a highly impressive programme for the reform of society and provides a crucial insight into the mind of one of Classical Greece's foremost thinkers.

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Plato (c.427-347 BC) was one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He was disgusted by the corruption of Athenian political life, and the execution of his teacher Socrates. He sought cures for the ills of society in philosophy, and became convinced that those ills would not cease until philosophers became rulers, or rulers philosophers.

Trevor J. Saunders has translated many volumes of Plato for the Penguin Classics.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140449841
ISBN 13 
9780140449846
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
592
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