Laws
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Plato's Laws, his longest and last dialogue, left unfinished at his death (c. 348 BC), sets out in twelve books the detailed constitution of a second-best city, Magnesia. Where the Republic imagined an ideal ruled by philosopher-kings, the Laws is a more practical, sober work of political and religious legislation, conducted not by Socrates but by an anonymous Athenian Stranger conversing with a Cretan and a Spartan. It is a foundational text of political philosophy and philosophy of law.
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