Plato’s Pragmatic Project
A Reading of Plato's "Laws"
By (author) Myrthe L. Bartels
Paperback (Published)
(September 2017)
ISBN: 9783515118002
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $87.00
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When we think about Plato’s philosophy, his Laws is usually not the first work that comes to mind. Plato’s final magnum opus is a perplexing text in many ways, even apart from the fact that its very existence forces us to reflect on the question of how it relates to Plato’s other major political work, Republic. The debate about Plato’s Laws usually disregards its composition and the way in which the legislation takes shape in the dialogue. This book offers a fresh reading of Plato’s Laws that treats its form as an integral part of its philosophy, and asks what the way in which Plato’s legislative project is given shape in the text suggests about the status of that project. It argues that the legislative project is strikingly pragmatic for a work of Platonic philosophy and should therefore be understood in its own terms. Rather than laying down a definitive law code for a new colony (Magnesia) that is based on, or at least in some way presupposes, a metaphysical norm, Plato’s last work creates its own moral framework, in which lawgiving provides a convenient practical test for a notion of virtue understood as social conditioning.
Myrthe L. Bartels is currently International Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania. She specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, especially ethics and political thought. She received her PhD in Classical Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands. Subsequently, she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
- By (author) Myrthe L. Bartels
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