Plato's Laws and the Question of the Gods

• In Event: Plato, Thucydides, and the Uses of Political Discourse

Abstract

The Laws is often thought to be Plato's most practical dialogue, but it also carries out Plato's most extensive examination of the meaning and character of divine law. Paying attention to both the drama and the action of the dialogue, this paper examines Plato's thinking about what is divine as well as about what is law.

Author

• Robert Goldberg, St. John's College