Laws by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Laws by Plato audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Plato's Laws is his longest and most practical dialogue, a searching conversation about what it takes to build a just city when human beings are imperfect. On a hot walk across Crete toward the cave of Zeus, three older men - an unnamed Athenian Stranger, the Cretan lawgiver-to-be Cleinias, and the Spartan Megillus - set themselves an ambitious task: to design the laws, institutions, and civic culture for a new colony they hope to found. Moving from broad questions of virtue and education to the gritty details of courts, property, marriage, religion, military training, and even the social uses and dangers of wine, they test how ideals can survive contact with habit, desire, and political reality. The dialogue explores how legislation shapes character, why persuasion must accompany coercion, and how a community can balance freedom, order, piety, and reason. Less a utopia than a blueprint for governance, Laws invites listeners into a patient, argumentative workshop where philosophy becomes civic architecture.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:39:17) Chapter 02

(01:22:54) Chapter 03

(02:32:50) Chapter 04

(03:16:19) Chapter 05

(03:58:48) Chapter 06

(05:00:35) Chapter 07

(06:06:17) Chapter 08

(06:59:50) Chapter 09

(07:50:03) Chapter 10

(08:49:24) Chapter 11

(09:48:22) Chapter 12

(11:00:09) Chapter 13

(11:57:13) Chapter 14

(12:39:50) Chapter 15

(13:21:40) Chapter 16

(14:09:11) Chapter 17

(15:02:55) Chapter 18

(15:37:13) Chapter 19

(16:19:04) Chapter 20

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