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ABSTRACT In his later depiction of an ideal city, the Laws, Plato does not move from rule by experts to the rule of law, as often claimed, since law is… Click to show full abstract
ABSTRACT In his later depiction of an ideal city, the Laws, Plato does not move from rule by experts to the rule of law, as often claimed, since law is also basic to the Republic. Rather, he now sees educated law-abidance as part of civic virtue: the laws are to be obeyed strictly, but also to be understood so that they are obeyed in the right spirit. Plato introduces original means to encourage this, and is led to make some moves in the direction of what will later be developed by the Stoics as natural law.
Keywords:
plato law;
law;
natural law;
law abidance
Journal Title: Jurisprudence
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Jurisprudence
Year Published: 2017
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