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Platonic Legislations

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59843-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-59842-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 10, 2017

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Argument

Dusenbury, David Lloyd

Pages: 1 –7

[In his supremely influential corpus, Plato lays out a critique of what he calls, in Laws IX, ‘all presently existing legislation’. Since archaic law-codes in Greece were held to have been revealed to human legislators by the gods, a critique of divine legislation is necessarily one moment of the...
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The Platonic Dialogues and Legal Critique

Dusenbury, David Lloyd

Pages: 9 –40

[Plato’s corpus is not systematic, but dramatic. This chapter introduces the drama of legal critique in his dialogues. Following a brief introduction to Plato and his chronology, with a glance at Platonism in the longue durée, the motif of legal critique is then traced up the dialogues that...
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Socrates’ Execution and Platonic Legislation

Dusenbury, David Lloyd

Pages: 41 –57

[Platonic legislation has its origins in the Athenian law-court in which Socrates was condemned to death, in 399 bce. A young Plato was present at his trial. The injustice of the judgement against Socrates, which was handed down by some 500 citizen-judges at the conclusion of a procedurally valid...
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A Critique of Law and the First Platonic Law-Code

Dusenbury, David Lloyd

Pages: 59 –76

[In one of his middle-period dialogues, Gorgias, Socrates says this: ‘I, being but one man, dissent.’ The question of dissent is of fundamental importance to Plato’s legal theory. And this question likely receives its most rigorous treatment in the Gorgias, where the validity of the law-state is...
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The Flux of Law and the Second Platonic Law-Code

Dusenbury, David Lloyd

Pages: 77 –96

[In one of his late dialogues, Politicus, Plato articulates a formal critique of law. No law-code, human or divine, can comprehend ‘the fact that none of the human things is ever at rest’. The flux of things necessitates a flux of law. Nevertheless, Plato believes that a law-code’s volatility is...

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