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Cover; Title Page; Original Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Currency Conversion; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter I Modern Theory, Ancient 'Sexuality'; Chapter II The Laws in Context; Chapter III Educating Magnesia: Developmental Psychology and Sex Role Stereotyping; Chapter IV AN?PEIA: A Special Definition for Magnesia; Chapter V Sex, the Myth of the Family and Plato's Stepchildren; Chapter VI A Brave New Femininity; Chapter VII Magnesian Moral Hygiene: Same-Sex Relations, Pleasure and Madness; Chapter VIII General Conclusions; Notes.

ch. I. Modern theory, ancient 'sexuality' -- ch. II. The Laws in context -- ch. III. Educating magnesia : developmental psychology and sex role stereotyping -- ch. IV. ANAPEIA : a special definition for magnesia -- ch. V. Sex, the myth of the family and Plato's stepchildren -- ch. VI. A brave new femininity -- ch. VII. Magnesian moral hygiene : same-sex relations, pleasure and madness -- ch. VIII. General conclusions.

Cover -- Title Page -- Original Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Currency Conversion -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter I Modern Theory, Ancient 'Sexuality' -- Chapter II The Laws in Context -- Chapter III Educating Magnesia: Developmental Psychology and Sex Role Stereotyping -- Chapter IV ANΔPEIA: A Special Definition for Magnesia -- Chapter V Sex, the Myth of the Family and Plato's Stepchildren -- Chapter VI A Brave New Femininity -- Chapter VII Magnesian Moral Hygiene: Same-Sex Relations, Pleasure and Madness

"Dealing with themes of urban planning, constitutionalism, utopianism and social construction theory, this book analyzes the city of Magnesia, Plato's second-best city-state in the Laws, as if it were an actual ancient city-state. The book details the demographics, economics, military capabilities and polity of Magnesia using (post)modern critical theory and contemporary data on ancient city-states. Examining the key features of the proposed city-state in detail, Kenneth Royce Moore considers Plato's proposed military as well as his invention of national service, and compares this with known militaries of the era. The author demonstrates that economic growth is not its priority, highly restricted with an aim toward stability rather than expansion. Moore also considers the Magnesian political system in the light of existing polities of the era, concluding that Magnesia will have a strikingly different form of government than any other actual city-state in antiquity, albeit derived in no small part from Athenian, Cretan and Spartan traditions. This book puts "flesh on the bones" of Plato's fictional utopia and reveals how surprisingly practical it could have been."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Plato's utopian society outlined in his Laws and called Magnesia is probably the most extraordinary example of civic and social planning to arise out of antiquity, albeit fictional. When compared with virtually all other actual poleis of its day, it is even more so on account of its inclusion of women in the public sphere. There are many revolutionary propositions in the Laws which include, but are not limited to, the likes of socialised education and healthcare, females in the military and potentially the government, a deliberately non-expansionistic and non-aggressive political doctrine along with a pronounced affinity for the vigilant supervision of all citizens, property and their interactions within its sovereign demesne. Each of these topics merits its own monograph. This article is concerned primarily with a significant innovation of Plato's Magnesia regarding his employment of a kind of 'national service' as part of the pedagogical experience of the young, known as the ephēbeia and its atypical inclusion of women.

Plato's Laws proposes a unique and interesting form of government for the hypothetical city-state (polis) outlined there and called Magnesia. It is on the one hand nominally a system of participatory democracy with a lively political culture. On the other, it is an authoritarian state, ruled by an elite and secretive council that carefully scrutinises its subjects and interferes in their lives in ways that today conjure shadows of the bygone Soviet Union. The electoral system is set up so that those in power may remove any potentially unwanted candidate. And the unelected, supreme council (known as the Vigilance Committee or synlogos nukterinos) which has final say over the interpretation of the law and being the only ones invested with the ability to change the law, have close ties with the official state religion so as, to the modern reader, to recollect the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership in post-revolutionary Iran. The Vigilance Committee has at its disposal the highly trained Guardians of the Laws as their agents of enforcement with the state sanctioned monopoly on violence.

This article undertakes to examine the reception of Platonic theories of falsification in the contemporary philosophy of Leo Strauss and his adherents. The aim of the article is to consider the Straussian response to, and interaction with, Platonic ideas concerning deception and persuasion with an emphasis on the arguments found in the Laws. The theme of central interest in this analysis is Plato's development of paramyth in the Laws. Paramyth entails the use of rhetorical language in order to persuade the many that it is to their advantage to obey certain laws. It does so without explaining in detail why a given law is ethically correct and its use assumes that the audience, on the whole, is not capable of understanding the finer philosophical underpinnings of the law. The so-called 'noble lie' of the Republic is also considered in this context. The crucial issue, for Plato if not for Strauss, is whether or not an instance of falsification, however minor, for the purposes of persuasion contains 'truth-value', that is, whether it is morally justifiable in terms of ends and means. In terms of Strauss's reception of Plato, such issues as ancient Hebrew mysticism, Medieval Jewish and Islamic scholarship and Heideggerian Phenomenology figure in the argument. Ultimately, the article finds that Strauss and his followers have constructed a particular view of Platonic ideas that, while unique, is not compatible with their original signification.