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Plato: The Laws. The Laws is Plato’s last, longest, and, perhaps, most loathed work. The book is a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias.
The Laws (Greek: Νόμοι, Nómoi; Latin: De Legibus) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. The conversation depicted in the work's twelve books begins with the question of who is given the credit for establishing a civilization's laws .
Book 1 Persons in the dialogue: Athenian Stranger, Cleinias, Megillus 624A Athenian Stranger: Well, my friends, was it a god or some human who was responsible for establishing your laws? Cleinias: A god, my friend, yes, that’s the fairest answer. Among ourselves, in Crete, it was Zeus, while among the Spartans, where this man comes from, I think they say it was Apollo. Is this so? Megillus ...
Laws. By Plato. Written 360 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Book I. Persons f THE DIALOGUE: An ATHENIAN STRANGER; CLEINIAS, a Cretan; MEGILLUS, a Lacedaemonian. Athenian Stranger. Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to be the author of your laws? Cleinias.
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved (1) by more than twenty citations of them in the writings of Aristotle, who was residing at Athens during the last twenty years of the life of Plato, and who, having left it after his death (B.C. 347), returned thither twelve years later (B.C. 335); (2) by the allusion of Isocrates
46 Cp. Plat. Rep. 609 ff, Plat. Sym. 188a ff ., where the theory is stated that health depends upon the “harmony,” or equal balance, of the constituent elements of the body (“heat” and “cold,” “moisture” and “dryness,”); when any of these (opposite) elements is in excess ( πλεονεκτεῖ ), disease sets in.
Quite true. Athenian. When nurses are trying to discover what a baby wants, they judge by these very same signs in offering it things. [ 792a ] If it remains silent when the thing is offered, they conclude that it is the right thing, but the wrong thing if it weeps and cries out.
