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A Journey Into Platonic Politics - Plato's Laws (Paperback, New)
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A Journey Into Platonic Politics - Plato's Laws (Paperback, New)
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"One should not take up the Laws as a plan for a new society nor as
a means to critique one's own nation and its customs. Indeed, the
Laws benefits most those readers who are comfortable in their lover
for and allegiance to the standards and institutions of their time
and place. Perhaps this claim sounds surprising. But it should
surprise only those who believe that love and loyalty are deep set
obstacles to thought and reflections. In contrast, such
attachments, and not their facile critique, are precisely what lead
us to take a healthy interest in and reflect fruitfully upon other
people's ways. The characters of the Laws recognize this truth as
well. They recommend that the highest body of the new city, a
council of thinkers and legislators, young and old, should
regularly send spies to other nations, to search out the "beauties"
in their foreign habits, beauties that might-or might not-be able
to be transplanted back to the council's city. The following study
of the Laws attempts to do something of the same thing, to read
Plato's dialogue as, in effect, a foreign country, through which
readers are led as if they were on a mission for our own Nocturnal
Council." -Albert Keith Whitaker, from the Introduction
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