Plato and Modern Law

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ISBN: 9780754624882 | 0754624889
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/28/2007

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This collection of writings on Plato and the Law features leading interpreters of Plato, including Vlastos, Hall, Strauss, Weinrib, Annas, and Morrow, who argue that Plato's dialogues reveal that knowledge of the functions of law, based upon intelligible principles, can be reformulated for relevance to our age.

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Series preface
Introduction
Overview of Plato's Political and Legal Thought
Plato's theory of law
Plato's legal philosophy
Plato in the Tradition of Legal and Political Thought
What is political philosophy
Positive language and positive law in Plato's Cratylus
The Central Issue of Plato's Legal Philosophy
The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy
Plato's Theory of Law in the Dialogues
Apology
The legal setting of Plato's Apology
An introduction for judges and lawyers to Plato's Apology of Socrates
Crito
Law and justice in Plato's Crito
Another look at the Crito
Gorgias
Law as myth: reflections on Plato's Gorgias
The ethics of argument
Plato's Gorgias and the modern lawyer
Protagoras
Not Socrates but Protagoras: the sophistic basis of legal education
Republic
Plato's Republic and feminism
The meaning of 'justice' and the theory of the forms
Implementing the ideal state
The Republic in the light of the Socratic method: a contribution to the defense of Plato's political philosophy
Laws
Platonic laws in a Colorado courtroom
Martha Nussbaum, John Furris and Plato's Laws in Evans v. Romer
Plato and the rule of law
Plato's law code in context: rule by written law in Athens and Magnesia
Laws, preambles and the legislator in Plato
Minos
An anonymous treatise on law: the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Minos
Statesman
The Mantike Techne: statesman 260E and 290C4-6
New Directions for Platonic Thought in the Law
Dialectic
The idea of dialectic
The Socratic method and the development of the moral imagination
Socratic teaching: a critical assessment
Justice
The idea of justice
Unity of the Political Community - Integrity
Integrity: justice in work clothes
Name index
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