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The Laws Buy for 1 credit
By: Plato Buy for $17.50
Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy, Hayward Morse, Sam
Dale
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Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
Release date: 03-01-18
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The Laws is the longest of Plato’s Dialogues and actually doesn’t feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger’ who
engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta).
The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave of Dicte, where, legend reports, Zeus was born. The topic under
examination is the making of laws appropriate for a well-ordered city: having considered this in The Republic many years earlier, Plato is now taking a less
idealistic view and presenting more practical and earthbound proposals, based on law rather than the philosopher-king. It is significant that each of the
participants comes from a city with a different system of government: a democracy (Athenian Stranger), a monarchy (Crete) and an oligarchy (Sparta).
The Laws is divided into 12 books. Though Socrates is not involved, it can be counted a Socratic Dialogue in terms of form and structure. The Athenian Stranger is
played by Laurence Kennedy, with Hayward Morse as Cleinias and Sam Dale as Megillus. The translation is by Benjamin Jowett.
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Overall Water taste textbook of very old genius
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Story In Plato's text, there's one distinguished trait of artistic genius. I may say he's a geek. Specially when he
say common wife rule in the Republic. But this text is written in his oldest age. The law is just mixture of
jeon dong ordinary common sense. That I say water taste. He's not a geek at all even in modern sense. That's real
03-11-21
somewhat wonder. And that means the more you repeat listning this audiobook the less you tied in wired
orthodox. Read this! Please say yes! We have to make less evil, less wired, less mad society by falling in
this.
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Overall Nice companion to the Jowett text
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Story The Laws is a long sustained argument that can hardly be taken in one sitting. I appreciate that this
reading and interpretation shows a good amount of thoughtfulness.
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Story The audio sections do not match the Books in the Dialogue. Otherwise it’s all fine and dandy.
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