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Plato and modern law
Brooks Richard O
Plato and modern law - Aldershot: Asghate ; 2007 - 659p xiii
Contents:
Acknowledgements ix;
Series preface xi;
Introduction xiii;
Part I Overview of Plato's Political and Legal Thought:
1. Plato's theory of law, Huntington Cairns;
2. Plato's legal philosophy, Jerome Hall;
Part II Plato in the Tradition of Legal and Political Thought:
3. What is political philosophy, Leo Strauss;
4. Positive language and positive law in Plato's Cratylus, James Bernard Murphy;
Part III The Central Issue of Plato's Legal Philosophy:
5. The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy, Gregory Vlastos;
Part IV Plato's Theory of Law in the Dialogues: Apology:
6. The legal setting of Plato's Apology, Robert J. Bonner;
7. An introduction for judges and lawyers to Plato's Apology of Socrates, William T. Braithwaite;
Crito:
8. Law and justice in Plato's Crito, R.E. Allen;
9. Another look at the Crito, Philip Soper;
Gorgias:
10. Law as myth: reflections on Plato's Gorgias, Ernest J. Weinrib;
11. The ethics of argument: Plato's Gorgias and the modern lawyer, James Boyd White;
Protagoras:
12. Not Socrates but Protagoras: the sophistic basis of legal education, William C. Hefferman;
Republic:
13. Plato's Republic and feminism, Julia Annas;
14. The meaning of 'justice' and the theory of the forms, Charles H. Kahn;
15. Implementing the ideal state, George Klosko;
16. The Republic in the light of the Socratic method: a contribution to the defense of Plato's political philosophy, Henry G. Wolz;
Laws:
17. Platonic laws in a Colorado courtroom: Martha Nussbaum, John Furris and Plato's Laws in Evans v. Romer, Randall Baldwin Clark;
18. Plato and the rule of law, Glenn R. Morrow;
19. Plato's law code in context: rule by written law in Athens and Magnesia, Andrea Wilson Nightingale; 20. Laws, preambles and the legislator in Plato, M.J. Silverthorne;
Minos:
21. An anonymous treatise on law: the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Minos, Anton-Herman Chroust;
Statesman:
22. The Mantike Techne: statesman 260E and 290C4-6, Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith.
Part V New Directions for Platonic Thought in the Law: Dialectic:
23. The idea of dialectic, Mortimer J. Adler;
24. The Socratic Method and the Development of the Moral Imagination*By Anthony Kronman;
25. Socratic Teaching: a critical assessment By Daniel Pekarsky;
Justice:
26. The Idea of Justice By Otto Bird;
Unity of the Political Community – Integrity ;
27. Integrity: Justice in Workclothes By Gerald J. Postema;
Name Index.
9780754624882
Law & Philosophy
340.1 BRO
Plato and modern law - Aldershot: Asghate ; 2007 - 659p xiii
Contents:
Acknowledgements ix;
Series preface xi;
Introduction xiii;
Part I Overview of Plato's Political and Legal Thought:
1. Plato's theory of law, Huntington Cairns;
2. Plato's legal philosophy, Jerome Hall;
Part II Plato in the Tradition of Legal and Political Thought:
3. What is political philosophy, Leo Strauss;
4. Positive language and positive law in Plato's Cratylus, James Bernard Murphy;
Part III The Central Issue of Plato's Legal Philosophy:
5. The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy, Gregory Vlastos;
Part IV Plato's Theory of Law in the Dialogues: Apology:
6. The legal setting of Plato's Apology, Robert J. Bonner;
7. An introduction for judges and lawyers to Plato's Apology of Socrates, William T. Braithwaite;
Crito:
8. Law and justice in Plato's Crito, R.E. Allen;
9. Another look at the Crito, Philip Soper;
Gorgias:
10. Law as myth: reflections on Plato's Gorgias, Ernest J. Weinrib;
11. The ethics of argument: Plato's Gorgias and the modern lawyer, James Boyd White;
Protagoras:
12. Not Socrates but Protagoras: the sophistic basis of legal education, William C. Hefferman;
Republic:
13. Plato's Republic and feminism, Julia Annas;
14. The meaning of 'justice' and the theory of the forms, Charles H. Kahn;
15. Implementing the ideal state, George Klosko;
16. The Republic in the light of the Socratic method: a contribution to the defense of Plato's political philosophy, Henry G. Wolz;
Laws:
17. Platonic laws in a Colorado courtroom: Martha Nussbaum, John Furris and Plato's Laws in Evans v. Romer, Randall Baldwin Clark;
18. Plato and the rule of law, Glenn R. Morrow;
19. Plato's law code in context: rule by written law in Athens and Magnesia, Andrea Wilson Nightingale; 20. Laws, preambles and the legislator in Plato, M.J. Silverthorne;
Minos:
21. An anonymous treatise on law: the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Minos, Anton-Herman Chroust;
Statesman:
22. The Mantike Techne: statesman 260E and 290C4-6, Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith.
Part V New Directions for Platonic Thought in the Law: Dialectic:
23. The idea of dialectic, Mortimer J. Adler;
24. The Socratic Method and the Development of the Moral Imagination*By Anthony Kronman;
25. Socratic Teaching: a critical assessment By Daniel Pekarsky;
Justice:
26. The Idea of Justice By Otto Bird;
Unity of the Political Community – Integrity ;
27. Integrity: Justice in Workclothes By Gerald J. Postema;
Name Index.
9780754624882
Law & Philosophy
340.1 BRO