Why does Plato's last dialogue, the Laws, exist?1 Or worse yet, does it exist? The underlying subject of the dialogue - describing at length an ideal society - is certainly a subject worthy of human intellectual interest. Indeed, Plato's more famous dialogue, the Republic, shares this topic. Yet at the same time, the existence of this dialogue - triumphant, complete in itself, and philosophically attractive - hardly calls for justification. It...
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