Title:
Plato's Laws : force and truth in politics
Author:
Recco, Gregory.
ISBN:
9780253001788
9780253001825
9780253001887
Publication Information:
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
248 p. ; 24 cm..
Series:
Studies in continental thought
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: SYNOPSES -- 1.Reading the Laws as a Whole: Horizon, Vision, and Structure / Mitchell Miller -- 2."Eρωσ and the Laws in Historical Context / Mark Munn -- READINGS -- 3.The Long and Winding Road: Impediments to Inquiry in Book 1 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 P. 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 / Gregory 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 J. Gonzalez --
Contents note continued: 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 and 12 / Eric Sanday.
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