Plato's Pragmatic Project - A Reading of Plato's 'Laws'

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction: Laws in Dialectic

1.1 Status quaestionis and principles of charity

1.2 Is Plato’s Laws unfinished?

1.3 The structure of Laws

1.4 The diminished prominence of ?????????? in Laws

1.5 Plan of the book

CHAPTER TWO

Platonic Preliminaries

2.1 Part I: ????? and authority

2.1.1 Structuring principles of the ????? analogy in Plato

2.1.2 ‘Stochastic’ ?????

2.2 Part II: Three texts on Platonic justice

2.2.1 Apology: Socrates unjustly accused

2.2.2 Crito: Socrates unjustly convicted

2.2.3 Republic: the just polis

2.3 Concluding remarks

CHAPTER THREE

Setting the Scene: ????? in Laws I–II

3.1 Setting the scene I

3.1.1 The Cretan notion of virtue: ???????

3.1.2 The weak spot of Spartan law

3.1.3 A ‘myth of virtue’: the ‘puppet’

3.1.4 The symposion as a training in ?????

3.1.5 Synopsis: what the argument of the symposion implies about ?????

3.2 Setting the scene II: the four virtues and the phases of paideia

3.2.1 The earliest paideia

3.2.2 The four citizen groups

3.3 Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR

Lawgiving Logôi: Formal Features of the Legislation

4.1 Legislating ????

4.1.1 A test for the opening discussion

4.1.2 The suggestion of consistency between the laws and Books I–II

4.1.3 The characteristics of legislation ????

4.2 Embedding laws in dialogue

4.2.1 Formal observations

4.2.2 The so-called ‘preambles’ (????????)

4.3 Lawgivers or not? The position of the interlocutors

4.3.1 The interlocutors as lawgivers

4.3.2 Not lawgivers yet

4.4 Conclusion

CHAPTER FIVE

Outline and Amendment: an Inevitable Lack of Accuracy

5.1 The legislation as an outline: the painter analogy, Laws VI

5.2 Instructing the successors

5.3 Lawgiving in consultation with reality

5.3.1 The gaps in the outline

5.4 Choosing laws from other cities

5.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER SIX

Outside the Law Code: the Nocturnal Council and the Athenian Stranger

6.1 The identity and function of the nocturnal council

6.1.1 The ?????? of the nocturnal council

6.1.2 The qualifications of the nocturnal council

6.2 The Athenian stranger

6.3 Conclusion

CHAPTER SEVEN

Conclusion: Plato’s Pragmatic Project

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EDITIONS, COMMENTARIES & TRANSLATIONS

GENERAL

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX OF GREEK WORDS

INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED