Plato's Laws: The Discovery of Being
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Eidetic and the Genetic -- 1. War and Peace -- 2. Courage and Moderation -- 3. Drunkenness -- 4. The Puppet Masters -- II. Education and Imitation -- 1. The Beautiful -- 2. Kinds of Pleasure -- 3. The Just -- 4. The Chorus of Dionysus -- III. History -- 1. Homer -- 2. The Dorians -- 3. Persia and Athens -- IV. Law and Prelude -- 1. People and Place -- 2. Regimes and Law -- 3. Double Law and Prelude -- V. Prescriptions -- 1. Knowledge and Ignorance -- 2. The Real and the Imaginary -- VI. On Getting Started -- 1. Beginnings and Magistrates -- 2. Succession -- 3. Marriage -- VII. Education -- 1. Unwritten Law -- 2. Consecration -- 3. The Laws -- 4. Imitation -- 5. False Appearances -- 6. Hunting -- VIII. The First End of the Laws -- 1. War Games -- 2. Eros -- 3. Agricultural and Commercial Law -- IX. Criminal Law -- 1. Hard Cases -- 2. The Beautiful, the Just, and the Good -- 3. Socratic Ignorance -- 4. Violence -- X. Theology -- 1. Atheism -- 2. Soul and Body -- 3. Providence -- XI. Private Law -- 1. Making Good -- 2. Estrangements -- 3. Comedy -- XII. Public Law -- 1. Heroic Virtue -- 2. Reviewers and Observers -- 3. The Nocturnal Council -- Epilogue -- Index -- Text Problems in Laws.