Plato's Laws

Force and Truth in Politics
Herausgeber: Recco, Gregory; Sanday, Eric

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Produktbeschreibung

Gregory Recco is a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis. Eric Sanday is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780253001825
• ISBN-10: 025300182X
• Artikelnr.: 34927282

Autorenporträt

edited by Gregory Recco, Eric Sanday, with contributions by Robert D. Metcalf, Mark Munn, Mitchell Miller, David Roochnik, Patricia Fagan, John Russon, Francisco Gonzalez, Eric Salem, Sara Brill

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On Reading the Laws as a Whole: Horizon, Vision, and Structure
Mitchell Miller
2. 'E and the Laws in Historical Context
Mark Munn
3. The Long and Winding Road: Impediments to Inquiry in Book One of the
Laws
Eric Salem
4. Education in Plato's Laws
John Russon
5. On Beginning after the Beginning
John Sallis
6. It is Difficult for a City with Good Laws to Come into Existence: On
Book 4
Michael Zuckert
7. "He Saw the Cities and He Knew the Minds of Many Men": Landscape and
Character in the Odyssey and the Laws
Patricia Fagan
8. On the Human and the Divine: Reading the Prelude in Plato's Laws 5
Robert Metcalf
9. Being True to Equality: Human Allotment and the Judgment of Zeus
Greg Recco
10. The 'Serious Play' of Book 7 of Plato's Laws
David Roochnik
11. No Country for Young Men: Eros as Outlaw in Plato's Laws
Francisco Gonzalez
12. On the Implications of Human Mortality: Legislation, Education, and
Philosophy in Book 9 of Plato's Laws
Catherine Zuckert
13. 'A Soul Superlatively Natural': Psychic Excess in Laws 10
Sara Brill
14. Property and Impiety in Plato's Laws: Books 11 & 12
Eric Sanday
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index