Laws (Hackett Classics) 9781647920470, 9781647920463, 9781647920487, 9781647920753

Table of contents :
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Laws
Book 1
624a–625c: Setting the scene
625c–632d: The aim of Spartan and Cretan laws
632d–650b: Kinds of virtue and the legislative ways to attain them
632d–635e: Courage and pleasure
635e–650b: Temperance and drinking parties as a way to acquire it
636a–641a: Criticism of Crete and Spartan views on drinking parties
641a–643a: Can drinking parties be educational?
643a–645c: The nature and aims of education (1); divine puppets
645c–650a: Drinking parties (1); the craft of politics
Book 2
652a–653c: The nature and aims of education (2); virtue and correctly nurtured pleasures and pains
653c–656c: Dance and music in education
656c–657c: Censorship of the arts in Egypt
657c–660d: Proper and improper pleasures; the correct legislator
660d–663d: Virtue and happiness; kinds of goods; the pleasant and the just
663d–664b: Persuading the youth
664b–667b: The three choruses
667b–671a: The nature of the third chorus; correctness of representation in dance and music
671a–672d: Drinking parties (2)
672d–674c: A summing up of the uses of drunkenness; gymnastic training
Book 3
676a–c: The starting-point of constitutions and their changes toward virtue or vice
677a–679e: Cities after the flood
679e–680e: Dynasties
680e–681d: The primitive city and the starting-point of legislation
681d–682e: Troy
682e–686a: The Dorian league
686a–694a: Why the league failed; pleonexia and lack of education in virtue
693c–702a: Persian monarchy or Athenian democracy?
694a–698a: Persia
698a–702a: Athens
702a–d: The lessons of history and the construction of the constitution of Magnesia
Book 4
704a–707e: The location of Magnesia and its geography
706a–707e: Problems of being located by the sea; more lessons of history
707e–708e: The nature of its first colonists
708e–715e: The problems of legislation and the conditions, constitutional and otherwise, necessary to solve them
714b–e: Thrasymachus’ argument reprised
715a–b: A constitution must aim at the common good of the entire city
715b–d: Rulers as servants of the laws
715e–723d: The double work of legislation: persuasion and compulsion
715e–718c: Address to the new colonists
718c–723d: Legislators; two sorts of doctors; why laws must have preludes
723d–724b: Introduction to the themes of Book 5
Book 5
726a–734e: Prelude to the laws of Magnesia
726a–728d: Honor due to the soul
728d–e: Honor due to the body
728e–729a: Honor due to money and property
729a–c: Proper treatment of children
729c–e: Proper treatment of kinsmen, friends, city, and fellow citizens
729e–730a: Proper treatment of foreigners
730a–731b: Personal ethics: virtue, truth, happiness
731b–d: How to treat criminals
731d–732b: Self-love
732b–d: Avoiding extremes of feeling
732d–734e: Virtue and happiness; pleasure and pain
734e–737b: The selection of citizens; harsh and gentle purges
737b–e: Distribution of the land (1)
737e–738b: The size of the population (1); the number five thousand and forty
738b–739a: The gods and the divisions of the country
739a–e: First and second best constitutions; community of property
739e–740a: Distribution of the land (2)
740a–741a: The size of the population (2)
741a–e: Property allocations are to be inalienable
741e–744a: The possession of money
744a–745b: The four property classes
745b–e: Administrative divisions
745e–746d: Ideal models need to be modified by facts
746d–747d: The importance of mathematics and measurement
747d–e: The influences of climate
Book 6
751a–752d: Appointing the first officials
752d–754d: The election of the first Guardians of the Laws
754d–755b: Duties and tenure of the Guardians; registration of property
755b–756b: Generals, Cavalry-Commanders, Tribe-Leaders, Company-Commanders
756b–756e: The election of the Council
756e–758a: The notion of equality
758a–d: The executive committee of the Council
758d–759d: Temple-Wardens, Priests, Priestesses
759d–e: The election of the Interpreters
759d–760a: Treasurers
760a–761d: The protection of the territory
761d–762b: Rural courts
762b–763c: The way of life of the Country-Wardens
763c–e: City-Wardens
763e–764c: Market-Wardens, attendance at the Assembly
764c–765d: Education officials
765d–766c: The Supervisor of Education in its entirety
766c–d: Death while in office
766d–767c: Judges and courts of justice: three grades of court
767c–e: Election to the supreme court
767e: Corrupt verdicts
767e–768a: Court hearing charges concerning the public interest
768a–c: Neighborhood and tribal courts
768c–e: Why the discussion of courts has to be an outline sketch
768e–771a: The role of the younger legislators in filling and correcting the sketch
771a–e: The organization of religious festivals
771e–772a: Marriage: choosing a partner (1)
772a–d: Provision for changing the laws
772d–e: The marriage law
772e–773e: Marriage: choosing a partner (2)
773e–774c: Failure to marry
774c–775a: Dowries and betrothals
775a–b: Wedding feasts
775b–e: Correct procreation (1)
775e–776b: Life of the newlyweds
776b–778b: Their property: the problem of slaves
778b–779e: Buildings and walls
779e–781d: Communal messes for women
781d–783b: Three basic human needs or appetites: food, drink, sex
783b–785b: Correct procreation (2): female officials to oversee this
785b: The marriage ages for men and women
Book 7
788a–d: Nurture and education: written and unwritten rules
788d–790c: Prenatal nurture and infant education
790c–791c: The importance of movement for infants as evidenced by Corybantic ritual
791c–793a: How far to indulge children
793a–d: The importance of unwritten customs
793d–794c: Education of three- to six-year-olds
794c–804c: Education of the over sixes, separated by sex, in the use of weapons
794c–795d: Ambidexterity
795d–796e: Gymnastic training (1)
796e–800b: Musical training; the dangers of innovation
800b–802a: Some model regulations
802a–803a: Regulation of singing and dancing
803a–804c: The correct use of leisure
804c–806d: Educational institutions
804c–d: Attendance at school; foreign teachers
804d–806d: Coeducation and its importance
806d–808d: How to live a properly leisured life
808d–809a: The role of the Supervisor of Education
809a–810b: Instructions to the Supervisor of Education
810b–812b: Literature; the Laws itself as an example
812b–813a: Music
813a–814d: Gymnastic training (2)
814d–816d: Dancing
816d–817e: Comedy and tragedy
817e–821a: Mathematical sciences
821a–822d: Astronomy
822d–824a: Hunting: written and unwritten rules again
Book 8
828a–d: Festival arrangements
828d–831b: Military training
831b–832d: Obstacles to correct military training
832d–833e: Races for men and women
833e–834a: Contests in arms
834a–d: Horse races
834d–835b: Concluding remarks
835b–837a: Problems of sexual conduct
837a–838a: Three kinds of friendship
838a–839e: Unnatural sexual relations
839e–841c: The importance of self-control
841c–842b: Two alternative laws about sexual relations
842b–842e: The food supply (1)
842e–843b: Agricultural laws
843b–844a: Treatment of neighbors
844a–d: The water supply (1)
844d–845d: The harvest
845d–e: The water supply (2)
845e–846c: Bringing home the crops
846c–847b: Laws governing craftsmen
847b–e: Imports and exports
847e–848c: The food supply (2)
848c–849a: Housing
849a–850a: Markets
850a–d: Resident aliens
Book 9
853a–857b: Capital offenses
853a–854a: Preliminary discussion
854a–856b: Temple robbery
856b–e: Subversion of the constitution
856e–857a: Treason
857a–864c: The theory of punishment
857a–b: Theft: should all thefts be punished alike?
857b–860c: The need for philosophy in legislation
860c–861d: Confusions about the voluntariness and involuntariness of injustice
861d–863a: The correct distinction and the purpose of punishment
863a–864c: A fuller account of injustice
864c–874d: Homicide law
864c–e: Persons unfit to plead
864e–866d: Involuntary homicide
866d–869e: Homicide due to anger
869e–873c: Voluntary homicide
873c–e: Suicide
873e–874a: Animals and soulless objects as killers
874a–b: Killing by person unknown
874b–d: Justifiable homicide
874d–879b: Woundings
874d–875d: The state of play and preliminaries
875d–876e: The courts’ discretion
876e–878b: Voluntary wounding
878b–879a: Woundings due to anger
879a–b: Involuntary woundings
879b–882c: Assault
Book 10
884a: Universal law concerning violence
884a–885b: Sources of impiety
885b–887a: The argument of the godless
887a–888d: Address to the young godless person
888d–890b: The background cosmology of godlessness
890b–891e: The difficulty of a legislator’s responding
891e–893a: The priority of soul (1)
893b–895b: Ten kinds of movement
895b–896a: The soul as what moves itself
896a–897b: The priority of soul (2)
897b–898e: The soul moves the heavenly bodies
898e–899d: How the soul moves these bodies
899d–900c: Address to the one who thinks the gods give no thought to human affairs
900c–903b: Demonstration of the contrary
903b–907b: The justice of the gods and the fate of the soul
907b–908a: Transition to the law concerning impiety
908a–e: Two sorts of offenders
908e–909d: The punishment for impiety
909d–910d: Private shrines
Book 11
913a–922a: Law of property
913a–b: Removal of buried treasure
913b–914e: Removal of property generally
914e–915d: The treatment of slaves, freed people
915d–918a: Sale and exchange
918a–920c: Retail trade
920c–d: Agreements
920d–921d: Dealings with craftsmen
921d–922a: Craftsmen of our salvation in war
922a–932d: Family law
922a–923c: Making a will
923c–925d: Testamentary and inheritance law
925d–926d: The harshness of the marriage law involved
926d–928d: Orphans and their care
928d–929d: Disinheritance
929d–e: Senility; death of a spouse
929e–930e: Children of mixed status
930e–932d: Respect for parents
932d–960b: Miscellaneous laws
932d–933e: Poisoning
933e–934c: Harming by theft or violence; the aim of punishment
934c–934e: Lunacy
934e–936b: Verbal abuse; comedies and lampoons
936b–c: Beggars
936c–e: Injuries to property by slaves
936e–937c: Testimony
937c–d: Perjury
937d–938c: Unscrupulous advocacy
Book 12
941a–b: Offenses by ambassadors and heralds
941b–942a: Theft of public property
942a–943d: Military service
943d–945b: Abandonment of weapons
945b–948b: The Inspectors
945e–947b: Election of the Inspectors
947b–e: Funeral of an Inspector
947e–948b: Prosecutions of Inspectors
948b–949d: Oaths
949d–e: Refusals to contribute to public expenses
949e–950d: Relations with the outside world
950d–951a: Foreign travel
951a–952d: Observers
952d–953e: Foreign visitors
953e–954a: Giving guarantees
954a–c: House searches
954c–e: Disputed claims
954e–955b: Preventing people from appearing in court or entering contests
955b: Receiving stolen goods
955b: Harboring an exile
955b–c: Making private peace or war
955c–d: Bribery
955d–e: Taxation
955e–956b: Votive offerings to the gods
956b–e: Three grades of court
956e–958a: Minor points of judicial procedure; the importance of legal studies
958a–c: Execution of verdicts
958c–960b: Funerals and mourning
960b–969d: The Nocturnal Council
960b–961a: How the city can be preserved intact
961a–963a: Membership and function of the Council
963a–964a: The unity and plurality of virtue
964a–965a: The Council’s teaching responsibilities
965a–966c: The more exact education of the Council
966c–968b: The importance of theology/astronomy
968b–969c: Recruitment of the Council and its course of studies
969c–969d: Closing remarks
Index
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