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Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Susan Sauvé Meyer

Current price: $29.99
Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Susan Sauvé Meyer

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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 differentnomoi (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 aboutwhat 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 thatdrinking 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 ofeducation 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 andscholars alike. | Plato: Laws 1 and 2 by Susan Sauvé Meyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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