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Platonic Legislations

Platonic Legislations

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This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became in the longue dure its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need for legal critique and the desire for legal permanence set the long arc of Platos corpusfrom the Apology to the Laws. Modern philosophers and legal historians have tended to overlook the fact that Plato was the most prolific legislator in ancient Greece. In the pages of his Republic and Laws, he drafted more than 700 statutes. This is more legal material than can be credited to the archetypal Greek legislatorsLycurgus, Draco, and Solon. The status of Platos laws is unique, since he composed them for purely hypothetical cities. And remarkably, he introduced this new genre by writing hard-hitting critiques of the Greek ideal of the sovereignty of law. Writing in the milieu in which immutable divine law vied for the first time with volatile democratic law, Plato rejected both sources of law, and sought to derive his laws from what he called political technique (politik techn). At the core of this technique is the question of how the idea of justice relates to legal and institutional change. Filled with sharp observations and bold claims, Platonic Legislations shows that it is possible to see Platoand our own legal culturein a new light In this provocative, intelligent, and elegant work D. L. Dusenbury has posed crucial questions not only as regards Platos thought in the making, but also as regards our contemporaneity.Giorgio Camassa, University of Udine There is a tension in Greek law, and in Greek legal thinking, between an understanding of law as unchangeable and authoritative, and a recognition that formal rules are often insufficient for the interpretation of reality, and need to be constantly revised to match it. Dusenburys book illuminates the sophistication of Platos legal thought in its engagement with this tension, and explores the potential of Platos reflection for modern legal theory.Mirko Canevaro, The University of Edinburgh.

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