Plato's 'Laws': a critical guide

✍ Scribed by Bobonich, Christopher

Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Series: Cambridge critical guides
Edition: 1. paperback ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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.

✦ Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung;Plato -- v427-v347 -- Leges

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