Graduate Student, Classics
Thesis Title: Codifications of a Cosmic Mind: the Status of the Laws in Plato's Laws
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Mw Prof. dr I. Sluiter
Mw dr M. van Raalte |
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The Laws, Plato’s last and largest work, is a remarkable text in the Platonic corpus. Two fundamental differences in respect to the Republic are that there are no philosopher-kings, and that the terminology of justice is conspicuously absent. I will argue that in the Laws we find a much more pragmatical, context-relative notion of justice than the absolute justice of the Republic. The importance of context makes the conversation of the Laws, a process of legislation, itself all the more interesting: how is it suggested that these are truly good laws?
In the preliminary chapter on the Apology, Crito, and Republic, I will trace the notions of 'the common interest', eudaimonia, the kind of knowledge that this involves, and the way authority is suggested for the claims in these texts.
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