FREEDOM, LIBERALITY, AND LIBERTY IN PLATO'S LAWS
@article{Laks2007FREEDOMLA, title={FREEDOM, LIBERALITY, AND LIBERTY IN PLATO'S LAWS}, author={Andr{\'e} Laks}, journal={Social Philosophy and Policy}, year={2007}, volume={24}, pages={130 - 152} }
This essay aims at establishing that the word “free” (eleutheros) and related terms are used by Plato in the Laws in two main senses. There is, first, the constitutional meaning of “freedom” which is put to work in book 3 in order to analyze moderately good and degenerate forms of historical constitutions. Strikingly enough, this meaning does not play any subsequent role in the shaping of the Platonic constitution itself—a fact which requires some kind of explanation. There is, then, scattered…
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