Plato's "Laws"

An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws , his complex final work. The  Laws  was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the  Republic,  which presents an abstract ideal, the  Laws  appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of the  Laws , which illuminates Plato’s major them