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(...) The Statesman
    Part
501 Intro  |         they meet together and make laws. And do we wonder, when
502 Intro  |       democracy which neglects, the laws. The government of one is
503 Intro  |             science which makes the laws, is higher than that which
504 Intro  |             together; these are the laws of intermarriage, and of
505 Intro  |            in the Third Book of the Laws. Some discrepancies may
506 Intro  |         good and wise tyrant of the Laws, whose will is better than
507 Intro  |           in comparing unchangeable laws with a personal governor.
508 Intro  |           sides from which positive laws may be attacked:—either
509 Intro  |            the Statesman, as in the Laws, we have three forms of
510 Intro  |             of a monarchy ruling by laws.~The divine foundations
511 Intro  |     incapable of education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly of opinion
512 Intro  |         authority of a ruler impose laws for which a nation is unprepared.
513 Intro  |          are interferences with the laws of nature; the idea is inconceivable
514 Intro  |             the introduction of new laws or modes of industry. A
515 Intro  |        wisdom of the perfect ruler.~Laws should be just, but they
516 Intro  |             of their acts. Too many laws may be the sign of a corrupt
517 Intro  |          which have the validity of laws. Even equity, which is the
518 Intro  |     appearance on the scene: in the Laws Plato appears to have forgotten
519 Intro  |           them in a single passage (Laws).~VI. The Statesman is naturally
520 Intro  |        between the Republic and the Laws, and is also related to
521 Intro  |         thought and language to the Laws. There is the same decline
522 Intro  |           over-civility; and in the Laws is contained the pattern
523 Intro  |         woof, are also found in the Laws. Both expressly recognize
524 Intro  |            Athenian Stranger in the Laws.~VII. There would have been
525 Intro  |          had been compared with the Laws rather than with the Republic,
526 Intro  |          with the Republic, and the Laws had been received, as they
527 Intro  |           But the comparison of the Laws proves that this repetition
528 Intro  |        between the Republic and the Laws, and in near connexion with
529 Intro  |          writings of Plato from the Laws. And the Theaetetus, Parmenides,
530 Text   |       whether rigidly observing the laws or not, and whether the
531 Text   |        their subjects, with written laws or without written laws,
532 Text   |             laws or without written laws, and whether they are poor
533 Text   |             to their ruling without laws—the expression has a harsh
534 Text   |             good government without laws.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
535 Text   |            are we compelled to make laws at all? The reason of this
536 Text   |          STRANGER: He will lay down laws in a general form for the
537 Text   |        STRANGER: And if he who gave laws, written or unwritten, determining
538 Text   |           one knows how the ancient laws may be improved, he must
539 Text   |             art, or a breach of the laws of health? Nothing could
540 Text   |            or poor, with or without laws, with the will of the citizens
541 Text   |         others must use the written laws of this—in no other way
542 Text   |            anything contrary to the laws, and any infringement of
543 Text   |        presume to be wiser than the laws; and as touching healing
544 Text   |       anybody may learn the written laws and the national customs.
545 Text   |      appoint as the guardian of the laws some one elected by a show
546 Text   |            caring nothing about the laws, were to act contrary to
547 Text   |         STRANGER: To go against the laws, which are based upon long
548 Text   |       SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER: The laws would be copies of the true
549 Text   |           art without regard to the laws, when he is of opinion that
550 Text   |         number of men, having fixed laws, in acting contrary to them
551 Text   |       contrary to their own written laws and national customs.~YOUNG
552 Text   |          they are regardless of the laws, oligarchy.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
553 Text   |           the best by violating the laws, while in reality appetite
554 Text   |            obliged to meet and make laws, and endeavour to approach
555 Text   |            by good prescriptions or laws, is the best of all the
556 Text   |          all, and has charge of the laws, and of all matters affecting


The Symposium
    Part
557 Intro  |            minds, and the beauty of laws and institutions, until
558 Intro  |         body (compare Charm.; Rep.; Laws; Symp.; and once more Xenophon,
559 Intro  |             to good (compare Plato, Laws, where he says that in the
560 Text   |            and wisdom, when the two laws of love are fulfilled and
561 Text   |            agreement, there, as the laws which are the lords of the
562 Text   |          revered father of Athenian laws; and many others there are
563 Text   |          beauty of institutions and laws, and to understand that
564 Text   |       beauty is a trifle; and after laws and institutions he will


Theaetetus
    Part
565 Intro  |    Protagoras without violating the laws of dramatic probability.
566 Intro  |            Theaetetus, Sophist, and Laws, of certain impenetrable
567 Intro  |            neither see nor hear the laws and votes of the state,
568 Intro  |             would maintain that the laws of the State were always
569 Intro  |       experience. There are certain laws of language and logic to
570 Intro  |           He cannot escape from the laws of his own mind; and he
571 Intro  |             described. Of the three laws of thought the first (All
572 Intro  |            remain as they were —the laws of motion, the properties
573 Intro  |           become unsettled, but the laws of the world remain fixed
574 Intro  |             relation to God and the laws of the universe. They have
575 Intro  |            can he withdraw from its laws or assert himself against
576 Intro  |           of them. And to throw the laws of external nature which
577 Intro  |         human mind. We speak of the laws of association, but this
578 Intro  |      impossible that some numerical laws may be found to have a place
579 Text   |            neither see nor hear the laws or decrees, as they are
580 Text   |      opinion, the state imposes all laws with a view to the greatest
581 Text   |             do with the future, and laws are passed under the idea
582 Text   |             that states, in passing laws, must often fail of their


Timaeus
    Part
583 Intro  |             in the Republic and the Laws. There are no speculations
584 Intro  |           which he maintains in the Laws respecting the involuntariness
585 Intro  |             our annals record. Many laws exist among us which are
586 Intro  |         love according to necessary laws and so framed man. And,
587 Intro  |        element of air. Such are the laws by which animals pass into
588 Intro  |          time out of mind (States.; Laws), laws or forms of art and
589 Intro  |            of mind (States.; Laws), laws or forms of art and music
590 Intro  |            for ten thousand years’ (Laws); he was aware that natural
591 Intro  |           or compounds of them, the laws of the world seemed to be
592 Intro  |            in arguing that the same laws which regulated the heavenly
593 Intro  |          they conceive ‘measure’ or laws of nature. They pass out
594 Intro  |          powers. (Compare, however, Laws for another solution of
595 Intro  |            the modern conception of laws of nature. They are in space,
596 Intro  |           impressed by mathematical laws and figures. (We may observe
597 Intro  |            go, but the mathematical laws by which the world is governed
598 Intro  |     together again (compare however Laws). Yet perhaps Plato may
599 Intro  |           all alike move in circles—Laws.) The stars are the habitations
600 Intro  |            Timaeus, although in the Laws he condemns the appellation
601 Intro  |             already quoted from the Laws, in which he affirms their
602 Intro  |             in some other passages (Laws) in which he might be expected
603 Intro  |            by bad education and bad laws, which implies that they
604 Intro  |             good education and good laws. He appears to have an inkling
605 Intro  |          Timaeus, as well as in the Laws, he also regards vices and
606 Intro  |             physicians are in vain (Laws—where he says that warm
607 Intro  |       number; (7) that mathematical laws pervaded the world; and
608 Intro  |            as the result of natural laws, or whether we must not
609 Intro  |        Philebus. We may find in the Laws or in the Statesman parallels
610 Intro  |         repeating twice or thrice’ (Laws) what is important for the
611 Intro  |          the other dialogues (Rep.; Laws) of the goodness of God. ‘
612 Intro  |            in the Tenth Book of the Laws he passes a censure on those
613 Intro  |       respectively to good and evil laws and institutions. These
614 Text   |            city which has admirable laws, and who is himself in wealth
615 Text   |         briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous
616 Text   |           If you compare these very laws with ours you will find
617 Text   |        there you dwelt, having such laws as these and still better
618 Text   |            and declared to them the laws of destiny, according to
619 Text   |              Having given all these laws to his creatures, that he
620 Text   |         love according to necessary laws, and so framed man. Wherefore,
621 Text   |          away in violation of these laws causes all manner of changes
622 Text   |         sources in violation of the laws of nature. When the several
623 Text   |            ignorance. These are the laws by which animals pass into