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And then, as time went on, the poets themselves introduced the reign of vulgar and lawless innovation. They were men of genius, but they had no perception of what is just and lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate delights—mingling lamentations with hymns, and paeans w Leggi tutto

Despite having been assigned it in my Classical Political Thought class, I only in the past few days finished reading Plato's Laws (apologies to Dr. Walsh). Which is a bit unfortunate, since it's bloody fantastic. I confess to having had a bit of a "meh" relationship with Plato in the past. I mean, t Leggi tutto

Ovo je najobimnije i posljednje napisano Platonovo djelo, a uz to je i jedan od rijetkih dijaloga u kome glavni lik nije Sokrat. Umjesto njega, ovdje se pojavljuje anonimni Atinjanin, koji svoju sliku idealne zajednice prezentuje jednom Krićaninu i jednom Lakedemonjaninu. "Zakoni" se (ne) mogu posmat Leggi tutto

The Laws of Plato is not entirely laws. It is not entirely anything, really. It seems to be a nice collection of aphoristic sayings, wise and pithy truths, and overall a collection of legal requirements for a city whose regulation is the main focus of this work. Designing a city can be difficult, an Leggi tutto

Platonic dialogues are a lot less fun when Socrates isn't around.

I'll open myself up for criticism and confess that I did not actually finish Plato's Laws . I made it all the way through Book VIII, then I started skimming, and when that proved just as boring, I went and looked at the secondary literature about the work. (There's a great summary at Stanford Encyclo Leggi tutto

(One has to read The Laws AFTER reading The Republic) in order to see the Huge deference between them. The Laws is basically a correction and adding to what was missing in The Republic which was written decades before The Laws. It shows in the book how Plato became wiser with age, more passionate an Leggi tutto