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Plato: Laws 1 and 2 (Hardcover)
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Plato: Laws 1 and 2 (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Plato Series
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Susan Sauve Meyer presents a new translation of Plato's Laws, 1 and
2. In these opening books of Plato's last work, a Cretan, a
Spartan, and an Athenian discuss legislative theory, moral
psychology, and the criteria for evaluating art. The interlocutors
compare the relative merits of different nomoi (laws, practices,
institutions), in particular, the communal meals (sussitia)
practiced in Sparta and Crete and the paradigmatically Athenian
institution of the drinking party (sumposion). They agree that the
legislator's goal is to inculcate virtue in the citizens, but they
disagree about what the virtues are, and what institutions are
required to inculcate them. The Spartan and Cretan, who value
military strength in a city and courage in its citizens, see no
value in drinking parties, which they take to encourage softness
and susceptibility to pleasure. The Athenian insists that drinking
parties train citizens in moderation, just as military exercises
train citizens in courage. He defends this paradoxical thesis by
offering a moral psychology and theory of virtue (rather different
from that of the Republic but highly evocative of Aristotle's
Ethics), along with a theory of education in which choral song and
dance play an important role. A detailed discussion of the criteria
for evaluating works of art rounds out the discussion, and here too
the reader will find a discussion very different from the treatment
of art in the Republic. Meyer's fluent and readable translation
achieves a high standard of fidelity to the original Greek. The
commentary lays bare the structure of the argumentation,
illuminates the philosophical issues, and explains difficult
passages, making this complex and intricate work accessible to
students and scholars alike.
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