Skip to content

Plato - Laws, Book IV (Live Reading)

Photo of Erik Christianson
Hosted By
Erik C.
Plato - Laws, Book IV (Live Reading)

Details

We'll be starting at Book IV, 719e (the previous meeting started at Book IV, 715d)

The dramatic action is as follows: Three elders—an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan—walk the path of Minos and discuss laws and law-giving.

Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/CPM-Saturday-Afternoon-Meetings

No particular edition is required but we can discuss what we want to use during the meeting. Because of this, sharing some editions that are generally available digitally in the comments may be helpful. I'll also try to keep the Greek text handy (probably through a Loeb edition, but anyone can look at Perseus as well).

If you want to familiarize yourself with the text in advance here are some different editions:

On Perseus, Shorely (HTML): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166

Plato's Complete Works:

PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B670E9AEA7C9F52B2D40D63FF84F5600

Photo of The Chicago Philosophy Meetup group
The Chicago Philosophy Meetup
See more events
Online event
Link visible for attendees
FREE